NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA Cosmos is a model family from NVIDIA13, with 2 assessed releases in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the OpenMDW License Agreement, version 1.1 (OpenMDW-1.1).
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)
On AI on Hugging Face: nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-8B, nvidia/Cosmos-Predict2.5-2B, nvidia/Cosmos-Transfer2.5-2B
Releases assessed
| Release | Weights | Tier (USASI rubric v0.2) | License | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Cosmos3-Nano | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): 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 v0.2): 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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NVIDIA releases Cosmos3-H-Embodied-Nano and Cosmos3-H-Dreams surgical robotics world models
NVIDIA published two surgical robotics models on Hugging Face whose model cards give a release date of October 20, 2026, both under the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement. The Cosmos3-H-Embodied-Nano card describes Cosmos3-Nano post-trained on the Open-H-Embodiment surgical robotics data jointly for forward dynamics, inverse dynamics and policy, so one checkpoint can predict robot actions and endoscopic video. The Cosmos3-H-Dreams card describes a real-time, action-conditioned surgical world model for the CMR Surgical Versius system, built on Cosmos3-H-Embodied-Nano and distilled into a few-step autoregressive student that generates endoscopic video from a camera frame and robot commands. Both cards say the Cosmos3-Nano architecture they inherit includes a Qwen3-VL-8B reasoning tower, and the cards describe intended uses in simulation, policy evaluation and synthetic data generation before use on a physical system. USASI has not tested these models.
NVIDIA releases Cosmos3-Edge, a 4B omnimodal world model, under OpenMDW-1.1
NVIDIA's Hugging Face model card gives July 20, 2026 as the release date of Cosmos3-Edge, a 4B-parameter model in the Cosmos3 collection, on both Hugging Face and GitHub. The card describes Cosmos3 as omnimodal world models built on a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture that take text, image, video and action-trajectory inputs and generate text, images, video and action outputs for physical AI uses such as robotics and autonomous vehicles. The model is released under OpenMDW-1.1 and is described as ready for commercial and non-commercial use. A note on the card says the generator checkpoint and runtime defaults were updated on August 25, 2026. USASI has not tested the model.
U.S. eligibility
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
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USASI. (2026, September 29). NVIDIA Cosmos. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/cosmos/
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@misc{usasi_cosmos,
author = {{USASI}},
title = {NVIDIA Cosmos},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
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note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-09-29}
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