In its own words on X: "Official @perplexity_ai developer account for real-time API updates." Perplexity posted the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning launch from @perplexitydevs on Aug 12, 2026.

How many views did Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning get on X?

52,428 views. Perplexity posted it from @perplexitydevs on Aug 12, 2026, and the post has 74 likes, 11 reposts, 5 quotes, 6 replies and 16 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.

Was Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning a big launch on X?

It ranks #2112 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 26% of them and 30% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.18%, against a median of 0.48%.

How did Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning do on X?

Perplexity posted the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning launch from @perplexitydevs on Aug 12, 2026. The post has 52,428 views, 74 likes, 11 reposts, 5 quotes and 6 replies, an engagement rate of 0.18%. It ranks #2112 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Perplexity Developers@perplexitydevs · 8.5K followersView on X

.@NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available in the Perplexity Agent API 🎉 An open 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, built for the high-volume execution layer of always-on agents: tool calls, validation, and subagent work. Pair Nemotron Lightning 3.5 with frontier models like Nemotron Ultra for planning, and let Lightning handle the volume. Start building: https://bit.ly/perplexity_lightning

Aug 12, 2026 · 52,428 views

30%the median launch175K median views
#2112of the launches we trackout of 2839
6.2xits own following8,519 followers

Views: 52.4K
Likes: 74
Reposts: 11
Quotes: 5
Replies: 6
Bookmarks: 16

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 52.4K views would cost $5K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 19x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 6.2 views for every follower of @perplexitydevs.

What launched?

Perplexity made NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning available in its Agent API, an open 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters for high-volume agent execution.

How does it compare with other launches?

Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has more views than 26% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 30% of the median launch's 175K views.

Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning52.4K
Median tracked launch175K
#1: xAI Voice Cloning204M

Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.

Metric	Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning	Median launch
Views	52.4K	175K
Engagement rate	0.18%	0.48%
Views per follower	6.2	2.8
Quote posts	5	27
Saves per 10K views	3.1	14.2

Other Perplexity launches we track: Perplexity Search SDK (388.8K views), Perplexity Connectors in Agent API (285K views), Perplexity CLI (162.2K views), Perplexity remote MCP server (36.9K views), Perplexity pplx-embed-v2-context (35.6K views), Perplexity Batch API (35.1K views). All 9 Perplexity launches, or every ai launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared with	Launches	Median views	This one	Rank
AI launches	1,462	263K	20%	#1193
Accounts under 10K followers	571	131K	40%	#402
Video launch posts	1,940	192.5K	27%	#1494
Every launch	2,839	175K	30%	#2112

What this launch shows

From an account with 8.5K followers, the post reached 6.2 times the account's following. Launches from accounts under 10K followers reach a median of 61 times their following, so this one went about 10% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 402 of 571 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 5 quote posts, 1.0 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is ".@NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available in the Perplexity Agent API 🎉". The post runs 57 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Wednesday (UTC). Wednesday launches have a median of 178.8K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

What is Perplexity?: In its own words on X: "Official @perplexity_ai developer account for real-time API updates." Perplexity posted the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning launch from @perplexitydevs on Aug 12, 2026.
How many views did Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning get on X?: 52,428 views. Perplexity posted it from @perplexitydevs on Aug 12, 2026, and the post has 74 likes, 11 reposts, 5 quotes, 6 replies and 16 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Perplexity Nemotron 3.5 Lightning a big launch on X?: It ranks #2112 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 26% of them and 30% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.18%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 52.4K views on X cost to buy?: At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 52.4K views would cost $5K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 19x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/perplexity-nemotron-3-5-lightning, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.