# Nemotron-3.5-lightning-30B-a3B Model by Nvidia for use on 1 GPU

> Source: <https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b>
> Published: 2026-08-12 11:30:10+00:00

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nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b Model by NVIDIA | NVIDIA NIM
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``` python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  base_url = "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1",
  api_key = "$NVIDIA_API_KEY"
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b",
  messages=[{"role":"user","content":""}],
  temperature=1,
  top_p=0.95,
  max_tokens=16384,
  extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs":{"enable_thinking":True},"reasoning_budget":16384},
  stream=True
)

for chunk in completion:
  if not chunk.choices:
    continue
  reasoning = getattr(chunk.choices[0].delta, "reasoning_content", None)
  if reasoning:
    print(reasoning, end="")
  if chunk.choices[0].delta.content is not None:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="")
```

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