NVIDIA Cosmos
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Cosmos is NVIDIA's family of world foundation models, datasets, and tools for physical AI such as robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart infrastructure. Earlier generations were released as separate Predict, Transfer, and Reason models (for example Cosmos-Predict2.5 and Cosmos-Reason2). Cosmos 3 merges understanding and generation of text, images, video, audio, and actions in one mixture-of-transformers model family; its Super (64B) and Nano (16B) models were released on May 31, 2026, and the Edge (4B) model followed in July 2026.134567
- Repository: NVIDIA Cosmos repository (external site: github.com)
- Model hub: Cosmos 3 collection on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)
- Paper: Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI (technical report) (external site: research.nvidia.com)
- Repository: Cosmos-Framework (training and serving code) (external site: github.com)
Releases assessed
| Release | Weights | Tier (USASI rubric v0.1) | License | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Cosmos3-Nano | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight | OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1), OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (Cosmos-Framework code) | May 31, 2026 |
| NVIDIA Cosmos3-Super | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight | OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1), OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (Cosmos-Framework code) | May 31, 2026 |
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The Cosmos models are developed and published by NVIDIA Corporation, which has its principal executive offices in Santa Clara, California, per its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 26, 2026. Cosmos 3 Nano and Super are initialized from Qwen3-VL weights developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud; that provenance is recorded on the release records.14910
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