Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 30B (IBM · USA) and Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning (NVIDIA · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 30B is rated EU-ready; Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is conditional. They part ways on licence: IBM Granite 4.1 30B is "Apache 2.0", Nemotron-3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning is "NVIDIA Open Model".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready Per the published model card, Granite 4.1 30B is an Apache 2.0 30-billion-parameter dense decoder with a 131k-token context, trained on the same publicly-available + synthetic + human-curated mix that anchors the rest of the Granite family. The larger sibling of Granite 4.1 8B, positioned for enterprise workloads where the 8B class falls short on reasoning depth — same defensible-default profile, with IP indemnification available via watsonx. | Conditional Per the NVIDIA Open Model Agreement, Nemotron-3 Nano Omni is commercially usable with a NOTICE-file attribution requirement and U.S. export-compliance obligations. Multimodal MoE (31B total / 3B active) accepting video, audio, image and text input, with reasoning-style chain-of-thought output. Training data is unusually well-documented (1,395 datasets, modality breakdown, CSAM scanning) — useful for AI Act Article 53 mapping. Vendor jurisdiction remains the US. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | NVIDIA Open Model |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Permitted (with attribution) |
| Training data | Disclosed | Disclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
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