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Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI

A platform of video curation, tokenizers, pretrained world models and post-training for physical-AI applications.

Niket Agarwal et al.
2025-01-07 · NVIDIA · Technical report
Source checked: 2026-10-25Institution base · NVIDIA 🇺🇸 United States
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Why read this

Follow video generation toward future-state prediction and data creation, while questioning whether visual realism implies physical correctness.

What it connects

Connects generative models to training and evaluation environments. A world model predicts what may happen; a policy decides what to do.

Technical report and implementation

This record covers the 2025 platform report, not the latest Cosmos generation. Generated video is not automatically a validated physics simulator.

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Citation

@misc{nvidia2025cosmos,
  title = {Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI},
  author = {NVIDIA and : and Niket Agarwal and Arslan Ali and Maciej Bala and Yogesh Balaji and Erik Barker and Tiffany Cai and Prithvijit Chattopadhyay and Yongxin Chen and Yin Cui and Yifan Ding and Daniel Dworakowski and Jiaojiao Fan and Michele Fenzi and Francesco Ferroni and Sanja Fidler and Dieter Fox and Songwei Ge and Yunhao Ge and Jinwei Gu and Siddharth Gururani and Ethan He and Jiahui Huang and Jacob Huffman and Pooya Jannaty and Jingyi Jin and Seung Wook Kim and Gergely Klár and Grace Lam and Shiyi Lan and Laura Leal-Taixe and Anqi Li and Zhaoshuo Li and Chen-Hsuan Lin and Tsung-Yi Lin and Huan Ling and Ming-Yu Liu and Xian Liu and Alice Luo and Qianli Ma and Hanzi Mao and Kaichun Mo and Arsalan Mousavian and Seungjun Nah and Sriharsha Niverty and David Page and Despoina Paschalidou and Zeeshan Patel and Lindsey Pavao and Morteza Ramezanali and Fitsum Reda and Xiaowei Ren and Vasanth Rao Naik Sabavat and Ed Schmerling and Stella Shi and Bartosz Stefaniak and Shitao Tang and Lyne Tchapmi and Przemek Tredak and Wei-Cheng Tseng and Jibin Varghese and Hao Wang and Haoxiang Wang and Heng Wang and Ting-Chun Wang and Fangyin Wei and Xinyue Wei and Jay Zhangjie Wu and Jiashu Xu and Wei Yang and Lin Yen-Chen and Xiaohui Zeng and Yu Zeng and Jing Zhang and Qinsheng Zhang and Yuxuan Zhang and Qingqing Zhao and Artur Zolkowski},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2501.03575},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03575}
}

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