NVIDIA2026-05-10
NVIDIA Star Elastic packs 30B/23B/12B reasoning models in one checkpoint

AI Analysis
Built on the Nemotron Elastic framework and applied to Nemotron Nano v3, Star Elastic trains three nested reasoning variants in a single 160B-token run, eliminating per-size training and storage. Zero-shot slicing recovers 23B and 12B models from the 30B parent without retraining.