# NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL 12B: Architecture and Improvements for Multimodal Reasoning

DevFeed: [NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL 12B: Architecture and Improvements for Multimodal Reasoning](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/small-vlms-will-soon-compete-with-frontier-ai-models-10x-their-size-35020.md>)

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Author: Alex Razvant

Published: 2025-11-22T14:58:39Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Neural Bits](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/neural-bits.md>)

Topics: [Nemotron](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nemotron.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>), [context window](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context-window.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [Mamba](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mamba.md>), [Transformer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformer.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>)

Tags: [ai-ml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-ml.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/long-context.md>), [mamba](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mamba.md>), [ml-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ml-engineering.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [nemotron](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nemotron.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines NVIDIA's Nemotron Nano 2 VL 12B, an open small vision-language model designed for document understanding, long-video comprehension, and multimodal reasoning. It discusses the model's architecture, encoders, training and inference improvements, reasoning modes, and reported benchmark performance, including a 128k-token context window.

## Source excerpt

What makes NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL a breakthrough in small, fast, long-context visual reasoning.