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 Aug 17, 2026

Developing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 with QAD Using NVIDIA Model Optimizer

Teams customize their models to hit their targets for latency, speed, memory, and compute. With the open NVIDIA Nemotron family of models, developers can find... 18 MIN READ
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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