NVIDIA has released Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B), a unified audio-text large language model. It understands and generates both audio and speech. It also keeps the text intelligence of its backbone. The checkpoints, along with a smaller Audex-2B, are released under a noncommercial license. Most multimodal models pay a text tax. When labs add audio or vision output, text benchmarks often drop. NVIDIA research team reports this even for spee…
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