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Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, today announced that NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now powering several of its AI travel agents in production. Just three weeks after receiving early access and beginning its work with NVIDIA, Navan trained and deployed the model.
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The deployment is the latest example of Navan’s open-model strategy: evaluating models for specific travel tasks, adapting them with Navan’s travel expertise, and self-hosting them to maintain control over performance, cost, and reliability.
Before deployment, Navan internally evaluated Nemotron 3.5 Super VL against its self-hosted production baseline and other models using consistent prompts, tools, travel scenarios and criteria. After fine-tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel VLM LoRA training recipe, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL delivered the strongest overall performance, beating or tying every competing model on six of seven measures, including having the lowest latency. The model is now in production and powering customer conversations at a lower cost while delivering greater value to Navan users.
“Building reliable agentic travel systems involves much more than choosing a model, but continuously iterating to improve and solve real-world problems,” said Ilan Twig, co-founder and CTO of Navan. “We’re grateful to NVIDIA for early access to Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, which shows how open models can help us move faster, maintain control, and deliver meaningful value without compromising quality.”
Navan combines open and closed models to build AI travel agents that understand what travelers want, follow policies, and use the right tools to get the job done.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now powering several of Navan's AI travel agents in production
NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of Indians thronged a bustling thoroughfare in the heart of the capital, waving the national flag and demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief, the latest show of public dissent against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
The protesters rallied in Connaught Place, one of New Delhi’s busiest commercial districts, responding to a call by the youth “Cockroach” movement, whose leader Abhijeet Dipke was detained by police ahead of the demonstration. Protesters spanning generations joined the rally, reflecting broad public anger and intensifying pressure on the country’s top election official.
Protests by the youth and opposition parties have intensified over an ongoing review of voter lists that has removed more than 130 million names since last year. Critics say the exercise is politically motivated, threatens to disenfranchise millions more, and has disproportionately affected minorities, particularly Muslims. They have demanded the resignation of election chief Gyanesh Kumar.
The Election Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration deny the allegations and say the revision is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.
Friday's protest was part of a growing campaign that has put Modi’s government under pressure and comes a week after a police crackdown on protesters in New Delhi.
The demonstrators vastly outnumbered the security personnel lining the road, while columns of riot police stood watch.
Police had earlier asked people not to join the rally and offered to let a small group gather to wave the national flag and sing the national anthem. In anticipation of the protests, authorities also closed Central Park, a green space surrounded by Connaught Place’s white colonial-era buildings, on Friday and Saturday.
Modi has not publicly commented on the protests. Some of his party leaders have dismissed the demonstrators as “anarchists” and suggested, without offering evidence, that they are backed by foreign powers.
Police detained Dipke, the founder of the “Cockroach” movement, ahead of the demonstrations. He had urged supporters unable to travel to New Delhi to raise the flag and demonstrate in their own communities.
A live video posted on the movement's Instagram account showed Dipke leaving a house and heading toward the street, where police officers intercepted him. After a brief exchange, officers hauled him into a police vehicle and drove away.
“Waving the tricolor (Indian flag) is not a crime,” he told reporters Thursday.
The “Cockroach” movement began as an online satirical campaign this summer after India’s chief justice compared unemployed young people to parasites. Many young Indians embraced the remark, adopting the cockroach as a symbol of resilience. It has since expanded into a nationwide protest movement of young people. Protests led by the group forced the resignation of Modi’s education minister in July, a rare setback for the prime minister, who has been in power for more than 12 years.
It remains unclear whether the protests will grow into a wider political movement. Modi’s government remains electorally strong, and anger over voter lists may not necessarily translate into support for the opposition, which has used the issue to criticize his Hindu nationalist government.
Student activist Neha Bora, center, shouts slogans during a youth demonstration demanding the resignation of the country's election chief Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Prabhat Mehrotra)
Prominent student leader Neha Bora, center crouching, is detained by the police during a youth demonstration demanding the resignation of the country's election chief Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vipin)
Prominent student leader Neha Bora, center, shouts slogans as she is detained by the police during a youth demonstration demanding the resignation of the country's election chief Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vipin)
Security personnel patrol ahead of a tricolor (Indian flag) waving protest called by the youth “Cockroach” movement demanding the resignation of India’s election chief in central New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Barricades are erected ahead of a tricolor (Indian flag) waving protest called by the youth “Cockroach” movement demanding the resignation of India’s election chief in central New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Security personnel patrol ahead of a tricolor (Indian flag) waving protest called by the youth “Cockroach” movement demanding the resignation of India’s election chief in central New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Security personnel assemble ahead of a tricolor (Indian flag) waving protest called by the youth “Cockroach” movement demanding the resignation of India’s election chief in central New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
A protester shouts slogans as he climbs onto a police barricade during a march by opposition parties toward the Supreme Court demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
