NVIDIA Releases Nemotron Competitive Coding Model

NVIDIA open-sourced Nemotron-Labs-3-Competitive-Coding, a Nemotron-3-Ultra-based model fine-tuned on GLM-5.2-distilled synthetic reasoning traces. Combined with the GenCorrect test-time compute strategy, it scored 535.4/600 on the IOI 2026 problem set, surpassing the top human contestant's 498.27 and becoming the first AI system to do so.

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