Trenton Starkey

Trenton Starkey is a product manager at NVIDIA on the AI Platform Software team, focused on NVIDIA Model Optimizer. He focuses on making state-of-the-art model optimization techniques like NVFP4 accessible to developers and inference partners worldwide. Before NVIDIA, he worked at Microsoft and Google, where he led platform and AI/ML initiatives. He holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Montana.
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Developer Tools & Techniques Jun 26, 2026

Creating the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 Checkpoint with NVIDIA Model Optimizer

As context windows grow longer, moving large model weights efficiently becomes critical to performance. A common way to address this is quantization, an... 16 MIN READ