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Uncensored Nemotron-3-Super-120B for MLX

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๐Ÿ’กUncensored 120B model hits 94% HumanEval โ€“ top open-weight for local coding.

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What Changed

Uncensored 4-bit MLX model with refusal vector removal

Why It Matters

Enables high-performance uncensored inference on Apple silicon via MLX, potentially rivaling closed models in coding and safety benchmarks for local deployments.

What To Do Next

Download from Hugging Face and run with provided custom.py in MLX Studio.

Who should care:Developers & AI Engineers

Key Points

  • โ€ขUncensored 4-bit MLX model with refusal vector removal
  • โ€ขCustom .py and chat template included for MLX Studio
  • โ€ขBenchmarks: HarmBench 97%, HumanEval 94%
  • โ€ขNo FP16 ablation due to unique attention mechanism
  • โ€ขq6 and q8 quantizations releasing tomorrow

๐Ÿง  Deep Insight

Background and context from public sources โ€” not the original article. 6 sources cited.

๐Ÿ”‘ Enhanced Key Takeaways

  • โ€ขNemotron 3 Super was officially released by NVIDIA with fully public weights, training data, recipes, and checkpoints available for download.
  • โ€ขThe model was pre-trained on over 10 trillion tokens and supports up to 1M token context length across English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese.
  • โ€ขIt achieves 85.6% on PinchBench, the highest score among open models for agentic performance in OpenClaw environments.
  • โ€ขOn NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs like B200, it delivers up to 5x higher throughput than prior Nemotron models using NVFP4 precision.
๐Ÿ“Š Competitor Analysisโ–ธ Show
Feature/BenchmarkNemotron 3 Super-120BGPT-OSS-120BQwen3.5-122B A10B
Intelligence Index363342
Throughput (vs. baseline)Up to 5x higherBaseline7.5x lower than Nemotron
PinchBench Score85.6%Not specifiedNot specified

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technical Deep Dive

  • โ€ขHybrid architecture: LatentMoE with interleaved Mamba-2 layers (linear-time sequence efficiency), MoE layers (top-22 routing, 120.6B total / 12.7B active parameters), and select Transformer Attention layers for precision reasoning.
  • โ€ขMulti-Token Prediction (MTP): Predicts multiple future tokens per forward pass, enabling speculative decoding and up to 7.5x higher throughput on long outputs (e.g., 64k tokens) vs. Qwen3.5-122B.
  • โ€ขNVFP4 pre-training: First in Nemotron 3 family; uses NVFP4 for most linear layers (weights, activations, gradients) with BF16/MXFP8 for stability in key layers like QKV/attention and embeddings.
  • โ€ขPost-training: Multi-environment RL across 21 configurations with 1.2M rollouts using NeMo Gym/RL; optimized for Blackwell GPUs (4x faster inference vs. FP8 on H100).

๐Ÿ”ฎ Future ImplicationsAI analysis grounded in cited sources

MLX community will expand uncensored Nemotron variants beyond 4-bit to q6/q8 quants
Article announces q6/q8 releases soon after 4-bit MLX version, building on fixed LatentMoE/Mamba issues for broader local deployment.
Nemotron 3 Super enables state-of-the-art agentic AI on consumer hardware via quantization
4-bit MLX version runs in ~10GB VRAM per search discussions, combined with 12B active params and MTP for efficient offline use.

โณ Timeline

2025-12
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano, precursor to Super model.
2026-01
NVIDIA announces and releases Nemotron 3 Super-120B with public weights and 1M context.
2026-03
Developer releases uncensored 4-bit MLX version fixing LatentMoE and Mamba attention for local use.
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