Description

NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL is a 12-billion-parameter open multimodal reasoning model designed for video understanding and document intelligence. It introduces a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture, combining transformer-level accuracy with Mamba’s memory-efficient sequence modeling for significantly higher throughput and lower latency. The model supports inputs of text and multi-image documents, producing natural-language outputs. It is trained on high-quality NVIDIA-curated synthetic datasets optimized for optical-character recognition, chart reasoning, and multimodal comprehension. Nemotron Nano 2 VL achieves leading results on OCRBench v2 and scores ≈ 74 average across MMMU, MathVista, AI2D, OCRBench, OCR-Reasoning, ChartQA, DocVQA, and Video-MME—surpassing prior open VL baselines. With Efficient Video Sampling (EVS), it handles long-form videos while reducing inference cost. Open-weights, training data, and fine-tuning recipes are released under a permissive NVIDIA open license, with deployment supported across NeMo, NIM, and major inference runtimes.

Technical Specifications

Example API Call

curl -X POST https://api.neuralhub.xyz/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer NEURALHUB_API_KEY" \
-d '{
  "model": "nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl",
  "messages": [
    { "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
    { "role": "user", "content": "" }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 500,
  "top_p": 0.9
}'

Response Format

The API returns an OpenAI-compatible response. Example:

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-<uuid>",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "created": 1765590371,
  "model": "nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "The answer to life, the universe, and everything is famously 42..."
      },
      "finish_reason": "stop"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 26,
    "completion_tokens": 169,
    "total_tokens": 195
  }
}