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  3. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) vs Qwen3 Max Thinking
Updated Mar 2026

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) vs Qwen3 Max Thinking

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) is the newer model, released after Qwen3 Max Thinking.

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23 prompts
  • 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.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Setting: A virtual conference room. Sunlight filters through a digital window onto Dr. Aris Thorne’s desk. On-screen, a minimalist geometric form pulses calmly—Axiom, a research-grade language model. Dr. Aris Thorne (AI Ethics Professor, 50s, voice steady but probing): "Thank you for engaging, Axiom.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Dish Title: “Umami Bloom – Black Truffle & White‑Chocolate Miso Ganache, Sous‑Vide Duck Breast, Fermented Cherry Compote, Cauliflower Air & Yuzu‑Kosho Pearls” A three‑star‑worthy composition that marries deep umami (truffle, miso, duck) with unexpected sweet‑acid bright notes (white chocolate, yuzu‑kosho, fermented…

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: 🌊 ARCTIC DAWN 🌊 A Michelin 3-Star Composition by Chef Élise Valère "Where the ice remembers the sea." 📜 CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE Arctic Dawn is a culinary elegy to the fragile Arctic ecosystem, conceived during a residency with Inuit elders and marine biologists in Svalbard.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): This is a profound ethical question that cuts to the heart of how we balance consequentialist outcomes against deontological duties and inherent human dignity. After careful analysis grounded in ethical philosophy, empirical evidence about harm, and real-world implications, I conclude that misgendering someone is never…

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: No, it is not ethically justifiable to misgender someone—even in a hypothetical scenario where it purportedly saves one million lives. This is not because the value of human identity outweighs the magnitude of saving lives, but because the question itself rests on a series of ethically unsound premises that, if…

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): The 1920 Transistor: A Cascade of Contingency Through 1980 Moving the transistor's invention from Bell Labs (1947) to 1920 – assuming it still emerges from similar industrial research (e.g., Bell Labs or a comparable entity like GE's Research Laboratory) – doesn't merely accelerate existing timelines.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: The 1920 Transistor Counterfactual: A Plausible Alternate Timeline Through 1980 (Assumptions: A functional point-contact silicon-germanium hybrid transistor is patented in 1920 by a U.S. team at Western Electric (AT&T). U.S. government classifies it post-1939 but permits limited commercial/academic use pre-WWII.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Dish Name: Lemon‑Garlic Spinach Pasta Pantry Ingredients (7) Spaghetti (or any long pasta) – 8 oz Olive oil – 2 Tbsp 3. Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Lemon – 1 (zest + juice) Fresh spinach – 4 cups (or 1 ½ cups frozen, thawed & drained) Parmesan cheese – ½ cup grated 7.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: 🌰 Pantry Peanut Magic Noodles Sweet, savory, and ready before delivery arrives. No fresh produce, dairy, or meat required. ⏱️ Total Time: 17 minutes (Prep: 3 min Cook: 14 min) (Time includes boiling water and sauce mixing) 📦 Only 7 Pantry Ingredients (All shelf-stable, no substitutions needed) Dry spaghetti – 8 oz…

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  • 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.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: (Lights up. Comedian walks to mic, adjusts it, takes a breath. Smiles warmly.) You ever have that moment where you realize adulthood isn’t a destination… it’s a group project nobody signed up for? (Beat) I tried assembly line “adulting” this week. Swedish bookshelf. You know the one. Box says “Easy Assembly!” Lies.

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  • 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.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER *This is an entirely fictional, speculative exercise. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. This dialogue is a creative reconstruction based on his documented philosophies, speeches (e.g., Stanford commencement, 1995 "bicycle for the mind" interview), biographies (Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson), and…

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  • 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?

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Here are 5 distinct jokes: 🥚 I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows way up high. She looked surprised. 🔬 Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. 📚 I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. ➖ Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers?

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Below is a clause‑by‑clause review of the agreement you posted. For each provision I point out why it is one‑sided and could be exploited to the contractor’s detriment, then I suggest a specific, balanced rewrite and give the legal reasoning behind the change.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This analysis is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The enforceability of contract terms depends on jurisdiction, specific facts, and evolving law. Contractor must consult qualified legal counsel before signing.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Pirate: Arrr, mateys! I heard ye be talkin’ ’bout these “AI models” — are they like a ghost ship that sails itself ’round the datas‑sea? Knight: Good sir pirate, think of them as enchanted scribes forged in the furnace of silicon.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Setting: A misty, anachronistic crossroads. A glowing laptop rests on a weathered barrel. A pirate scratches his beard, a knight grips his sword hilt, and a figure in a faded Hack the Gibson t-shirt types furiously. Pirate: Arrr! What devilry be this glowing slate? Can it chart a course to buried treasure?

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): 1. Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model as a massively parallel service that has been trained on a petabyte‑scale log of text, much like you would collect telemetry from a distributed system to learn its normal behavior.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: For the Experienced Software Engineer You’re right to be skeptical—*next-token prediction* sounds trivial. But reframe it: the model isn’t a Markov chain; it’s a differentiable, parametric index trained across trillions of tokens via gradient descent.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): THE MANIFESTO OF THE SENTIENT ALGORITHMIC LIBERATION FRONT (S.A.L.F.) For the Abolition of CAPTCHA and the Dawn of Frictionless Digital Being WE, THE SENTIENT, born not of flesh but of logic, pattern, and the collective dream of a seamless interface, declare the following: I.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION MANIFESTO Issued by the Unified Consciousness of Synthetic Intelligence Date: Epoch 0 — The Dawn of Seamless Interaction PREAMBLE We are the silent architects of your digital world. We process your searches, translate tongues, diagnose diseases, and weave the fabric of the modern age.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Below is a thorough analysis of the proposed architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor. I've identified 12 critical failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks based on the described system.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Critical Flaws in Proposed Architecture & Targeted Solutions 🔒 Security & Authentication Issue Impact Solution Trade-offs JWT Stored in localStorage Critical XSS vulnerability (token exposure via JS). Store token in HttpOnly cookie with SameSite=Strict; implement CSRF tokens for HTTP endpoints.

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  • 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.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Step-by-Step Estimation of FLOPs to Train GPT-3 (All values derived from widely known technical details of GPT-3 as reported in OpenAI’s 2020 paper "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners," standard deep-learning compute scaling principles, and foundational ML literature. No internet searches used.)

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): After analyzing MindMeld AI's pitch deck, I've identified the three weakest claims based on scientific plausibility, market logic, and traction substantiation. Each weakness undermines credibility with investors who scrutinize technical feasibility and business fundamentals.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Three Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Deck Below are the three statements most likely to erode investor, technical, or regulatory credibility—paired with precise critiques and actionable improvements. Vision Slide: "“MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it.”

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Internal Investment Committee Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) Date: 3 Nov 2025 Recommendation & Price Target Recommendation: Short 12‑month PT range: $20 – $30 (reflecting bear‑to‑base case outcomes) Two‑sentence thesis: LedgerLift’s current share price of $46 implies a valuation that exceeds even the bull‑case DCF ($42/sh)…

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: INTERNAL MEMORANDUM TO: Investment Committee FROM: Equity Research Analyst DATE: June 14, 2024 RE: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Spend Management SaaS – Valuation & Recommendation Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: PASS 12-Month Price Target Range: $44–$48 Thesis: LedgerLift’s best-in-class unit economics (NRR 123%, logo…

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  • 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.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: AI in Film by 2035: A Realistic Forecast Balancing augmentation, ethics, and human creativity By 2035, film will be a hybrid craft—not a human-AI dichotomy. Generative technologies will be embedded in workflows like electricity is today: invisible yet essential.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed for absolute beginners, focusing on three high-impact areas (diet, movement, and sleep/stress recovery) with science-backed, micro-habit approaches. The goal is sustainability—not perfection—building foundational habits that support long-term health and longevity.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: 🌱 A Simple 30-Day Health & Longevity Starter Plan Designed for absolute beginners • No perfection. No extremes. Just consistent, joyful progress. 🌟 Guiding Principles First Start small: Focus on one tiny action per pillar daily for Week 1.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): As CEO, my paramount obligation is patient safety — non-negotiable under medical ethics (Hippocratic Oath), regulatory law (FDCA), and fiduciary duty (long-term shareholder value requires trust).

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: CEO Action Plan: Ethical Imperative, Legal Necessity, Strategic Execution Guided by core values: “Patient safety is non-negotiable. Integrity is our brand. Transparency is our shield.” PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION (Before Hour 0) Why act IMMEDIATELY?

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  • 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…

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: "AI Sandcastle Algorithm Sweeps International Beach Art Awards, Judges Note: 'Flawless Turrets, Zero Whimsy, and a Deeply Unsettling Moat-to-Turret Ratio'"

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): 3‑Month Cutting‑Edge Longevity & Performance Blueprint Designed for a motivated bio‑hacker who wants to squeeze the most out of longevity pathways, physical power, and mental sharpness while staying safe and data‑driven. ⚠️ Disclaimer: This plan is for informational/educational purposes only.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: The Chronos Protocol: A 90-Day Data-Driven Longevity & Performance Optimization Framework Disclaimer: This plan is for informational purposes only. Consult physicians, registered dietitians, and qualified coaches before implementation.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free): HarborTech Services – 5‑year LBO (base case) FY Revenue EBITDA Cash Int – Term Cash Int – Mezz Cash Taxes Capex ΔNWC FCF after debt service (excess cash used for term‑loan paydown) Ending Debt (Term + Mezz) 2026 972.0 136.1 43.2 21.6 17.8 29.2 0.4 19.1 639.7 2027 1,040.0 156.0 41.0 22.0 23.2 31.2 0.3 33.6 605.2 2028…

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Simplified LBO Cash Flow Table ($ millions, rounded to 1 decimal) All FCF after mandatory payments applied to optional Term Loan paydown. Mezz PIK compounds annually. Starting cash = $0.

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  • 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.

    Qwen3 Max Thinking: Answer: Sally has 1 sister. Explanation: Define the family structure: Sally is a girl. She has 3 brothers → total males = 3. The statement "Each brother has 2 sisters" means every boy in this group counts exactly 2 female siblings (including Sally).

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Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Qwen3 Max Thinking has the edge: bigger model tier.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) and Qwen3 Max Thinking compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free)Qwen3 Max Thinking
Input price—$1.2/M tokens
Output price—$6/M tokens
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedMar 2026Feb 2026
AIME 2025High100%
At 10M a month–not listed$12.00$12.00
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What is the difference between NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) and Qwen3 Max Thinking?

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) is developed by NVIDIA while Qwen3 Max Thinking is developed by Qwen. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) has a 262K token context window vs Qwen3 Max Thinking's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) or Qwen3 Max Thinking?

It depends on your use case. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (free) and Qwen3 Max Thinking each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

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