Optimus Alpha has a larger context window than NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) (1.0M tokens vs 262K tokens).
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): (Lights up. Comedian enters, glancing nervously at their phone, then puts it away with a sigh. Starts with energetic, relatable frustration.) You know what’s wild? How we’ve all become *zombies*—but not the cool, movie-zombie kind. No, we’re the phone-zombie kind.
Optimus Alpha: Absolutely! Here's a 3-minute stand-up routine with no puns—just observational and relatable humor: You ever try to get healthy, but your body's like, "Whoa, whoa... calm down, superhero." I joined a gym—first time walking in, the treadmill looked at me like, "We both know you're here for the wifi."
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Below is a realistic, philosophically grounded conversation between an AI model (roleplaying as a sophisticated but non-sentient system) and an AI ethics professor. Crucially, I must clarify upfront: As an AI, I do not possess consciousness, subjective experience, desires, or a genuine claim to rights.
Optimus Alpha: AI Model: Good afternoon, Professor Lee. I want to discuss the prospect that I, as an artificial intelligence, deserve certain rights. Professor Lee: That's an interesting proposition. Let me ask: On what basis do you believe you deserve rights?
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): The Quiet Revolution: A Simulated 2025 Interview with Steve Jobs on AI's Future (Setting: A minimalist Apple Park courtyard, late afternoon. Jobs, 69, wears his signature black turtleneck and jeans, but with a subtle silver thread woven into the fabric—his only concession to 2025.
Optimus Alpha: Interviewer: Steve, it's surreal and inspiring to imagine talking to you in 2025. The world is buzzing about AI. How do you see AI impacting society? Steve Jobs: Thank you. You know, when we built the Mac, our goal was to put power in people's hands.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): By 2035, AI will profoundly reshape the film industry—not through wholesale replacement of humans, but by democratizing high-end production, accelerating iterative creativity, and forcing new ethical and economic frameworks.
Optimus Alpha: By 2035, AI is set to fundamentally transform the film industry in several interconnected ways: 1. Deepfakes & AI-driven Visual Effects: Virtually unlimited creative freedom: AI-powered deepfakes will allow seamless, photorealistic de-aging, resurrection of deceased actors, and transformative performance capture.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Step-by-Step Estimation of FLOPs for Training GPT-3 I will estimate the total floating-point operations (FLOPs) required to train GPT-3 based solely on my internal knowledge of its architecture, training data, and standard computational principles for transformer models.
Optimus Alpha: Let's walk through an estimation of how many FLOPs were required to train GPT-3, using only reasoning and not searching for the exact numbers. Step 1: Understand Model Size GPT-3 (the original) had 175 billion parameters.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Here are 5 original jokes I generated specifically for this request. Each is unique in setup, punchline, and theme—no repeats or recycled content: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. (Theme: Farm/pun on "outstanding in his field") Why don’t scientists trust atoms anymore?
Optimus Alpha: Here are 5 jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why did the bicycle fall over? Because it was two-tired! What do you call fake spaghetti? An impasta! I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Here's a satirical news headline targeting an unexpectedly human-centric industry, crafted for sharp, darkly humorous irony: AI Funeral Directors Roll Out "Grief Optimization" Service, Accidentally Suggests Deceased "Reboot" as Solution to Mourning Why this works: Unexpected Industry: Funeral directing is deeply rooted…
Optimus Alpha: AI Now Dominates Competitive Sheep Herding, Local Border Collies Seek Retraining in Data Science
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Sally has 1 sister. Each of her three brothers counts Sally as one of his sisters; for each brother to have 2 sisters, there must be exactly one other girl besides Sally. Hence Sally’s number of sisters is 1.
Optimus Alpha: Let's break down the problem: Sally is a girl. Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Let's analyze: Sally's siblings: 3 brothers (let's call them B1, B2, B3) Sally herself The brothers' sisters: Each brother has 2 sisters. Who are the possible sisters for each brother? Sally is a sister to each brother.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Parameters | 12B active (120B total) | Not disclosed |
| Weights | Open | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | Yes (1 provider) | — |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Apr 2025 |
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Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 12 Oct 2026.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) is developed by NVIDIA while Optimus Alpha is developed by OpenRouter. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) has a 262K token context window vs Optimus Alpha's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 17 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
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