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In early 2026, leading academics effectively declared the “performance gap” separating U.S. and Chinese AI models closed. For China in particular, rapidly moving AI developments are the product of effective technology indigenization in the face of U.S. export controls, and a big bet on an open-weight model approach.

Fastino-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-Finance andFastino-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-Healthcare, post-trained on Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by the Fastino Fine-Tuning Agent, are available on Hugging Face today under the Apache 2.0 license. Both models outperform the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning base model across a variety of finance and healthcare benchmarks, showing off both the ease of fine-tuning Nemotron and the power of doing it with the…