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NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The World's First Fully Open Omnimodel for Physical AI

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NVIDIA has launched Cosmos 3, described as the world's first fully open omnimodel — a world foundation model for physical AI that can understand and generate text, images, video, ambient sound and actions with leading physics accuracy. Built on a mixture-of-transformers architecture, Cosmos 3 combines vision reasoning, world generation and action prediction in a single unified model designed to power the next generation of robots, autonomous vehicles and vision AI agents.

What Makes Cosmos 3 an Omnimodel

NVIDIA describes Cosmos 3 as the world's first fully open omnimodel — a model capable of understanding and generating across five modalities: text, images, video, ambient sound and actions. This positions it well beyond a conventional language or vision model, giving it the breadth needed to perceive and simulate the physical world end to end.

Its mixture-of-transformers architecture pairs a reasoning transformer with an expert generation transformer. This pairing allows the model to understand object interactions, motion and spatial-temporal relationships before generating video outputs and action trajectories — capabilities critical for training real-world autonomous systems.

Physical AI Capabilities and Platform Expansion

NVIDIA says Cosmos 3 allows robots, autonomous vehicles and vision agents to operate in real-world conditions even with limited training data and fragmented simulation stacks. The platform now includes new datasets covering robotics, physics, human motion, autonomous driving, warehouse safety and spatial reasoning.

New physical AI agent skills have also been added for neural scene reconstruction, defect-image generation and video augmentation — tools aimed at supporting researchers across the full data generation, simulation and evaluation pipeline for autonomous systems development.

Cosmos 3 Super, part of NVIDIA's post-training lineup, is positioned for applications requiring the highest physics accuracy and generation quality — making it the flagship option for robotics and autonomous vehicle developers with the most demanding use cases.

"The big bang of physical AI is just around the corner thanks to breakthroughs in multimodal reasoning language, vision and world models. The Cosmos 3 family of open, frontier omnimodels gives developers a generational leap in ability to build robots, AVs and vision AI that perceive, reason, plan and act in the physical world."

Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO, NVIDIA

How Developers Are Using Cosmos 3

Developers can use Cosmos 3 in multiple ways: as a vision language model, as the backbone for world action models, or as a world and video foundation model that simulates physical environments and predicts future world states for training and evaluation. For robotics tasks, the model can generate synthetic data and scene variations and support post-training with embodiment-specific behaviour — from pick-and-place operations to dexterous manipulation.

Robotics adopters already building on the platform include Agile Robots, Doosan Robotics, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Skild AI. Li Auto is using the platform for autonomous vehicle development, while Centific, Fogsphere, Linker Vision, Milestone Systems and Yuan are applying it to vision AI agents for industrial AI and smart space applications.

The NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition

Alongside Cosmos 3, NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Cosmos Coalition — a global collaboration between world model builders and AI developers. Founding members include Agile Robots, Black Forest Labs, Generalist, LTX, Runway and Skild AI. The coalition is focused on advancing open world models across industries.

Coalition members can contribute models, research and evaluation techniques while leveraging Cosmos 3 technologies, creating an open ecosystem designed to accelerate the development of physical AI at scale. According to Deloitte, cumulative installed capacity of industrial robots could reach 5.5 million globally by 2026 — making platforms like Cosmos increasingly critical infrastructure for the robotics industry.

Key Takeaways

  • NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is the world's first fully open omnimodel, capable of understanding and generating text, images, video, ambient sound and actions with leading physics accuracy.
  • Its mixture-of-transformers architecture pairs a reasoning transformer with an expert generation transformer, enabling deep understanding of spatial-temporal relationships and physics before generating outputs.
  • The Cosmos platform has expanded with new robotics, autonomous driving and spatial reasoning datasets, plus new agent skills for neural scene reconstruction and defect-image generation.
  • Major industry players — including Agile Robots, Doosan Robotics, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Li Auto and Skild AI — are already building on the Cosmos platform.
  • NVIDIA has launched the Cosmos Coalition — a global open collaboration with members including Black Forest Labs, Runway and Generalist — to advance world models across industries.
  • With Deloitte projecting 5.5 million industrial robots in operation globally by 2026, Cosmos 3 arrives as a foundational platform at a pivotal moment for the physical AI and robotics industries.
Tags: Physical AI NVIDIA Robotics Autonomous Vehicles World Foundation Models AI Manufacturing Generative AI