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NVIDIA Cosmos

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Maintained by NVIDIA13

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

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Releases assessed

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Releases in the NVIDIA Cosmos family
ReleaseWeightsTier (USASI rubric v0.1)LicenseReleased
NVIDIA Cosmos3-NanoWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weightOpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1), OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (Cosmos-Framework code)May 31, 2026
NVIDIA Cosmos3-SuperWeights: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weightOpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1), OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (Cosmos-Framework code)May 31, 2026

What it is useful for

NVIDIA describes Cosmos 3 for world understanding and generation, simulation, synthetic data generation, and robot policy learning in robotics, autonomous driving, and industrial settings.31

Organization context

U.S. eligibility

Project eligibility rests on documented governing or maintaining entities, not on contributors.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

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

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Sources

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    NVIDIA/Cosmos (GitHub) (external site: github.com)

    NVIDIA (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3, the Open Frontier Foundation Model for Physical AI (external site: nvidianews.nvidia.com)

    NVIDIA Newsroom · Announcement · published May 31, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement (external site: nvidia.com)

    NVIDIA · License · published Oct 24, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    QwenLM/Qwen3-VL (GitHub) (external site: github.com)

    Qwen team (GitHub) · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    NVIDIA Corporation Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 26, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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