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We introduce Cosmos 3, a family of omnimodal world models designed to jointly process and generate language, image, video, audio, and action sequences within a unified mixture-of-transformers architecture. By supporting highly flexible input-output configurations, Cosmos 3 seamlessly unifies critical modalities for Physical AI -- effectively subsuming vision-language models, video generators, world simulators, and world-action models into a single framework. Our evaluation demonstrates that Cosmos 3 establishes a new state-of-the-art across a diverse suite of understanding and generation tasks, demonstrating omnimodal world models as scalable, general-purpose backbones for embodied agents. Our post-trained Cosmos 3 models were ranked as the best open-source Text-to-Image and Image-to-Video models by Artificial Analysis, and the best policy model by RoboArena at the time the technical report was written. To accelerate open research and deployment in Physical AI, we make our code, model checkpoints, curated synthetic datasets, and evaluation benchmark available under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 https://openmdw.ai/license/1-1/ License at https://github.com/nvidia/cosmos}{github.com/nvidia/cosmos and https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/cosmos3 . The project website is available at https://research.nvidia.com/labs/cosmos-lab/cosmos3 .
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Why this is worth your attention
Cosmos 3 is NVIDIA’s bid to turn physical-AI stacks from a collection of vision models, video generators, simulators, and robot-policy models into one open-weight backbone that can reason over and generate language, image, video, audio, and actions. If the results hold outside NVIDIA’s benchmarks, synthetic training data, robot-policy adaptation, and scenario simulation become more realistic to buy or build as platform capabilities rather than bespoke research projects.
- Revisit the assumption that robotics, autonomy, and simulation products need separate perception, video-generation, world-model, and policy systems. Cosmos 3’s core claim is that those functions can be expressed as different input-output modes of one backbone, which would shift value from bespoke model plumbing toward data, evaluation, safety, and deployment discipline.
- The open release is the practical adoption signal: weights, code, synthetic datasets, and benchmarks are available, not just a paper claim. Teams in robotics, autonomous systems, industrial safety, and synthetic-data operations should test the released Nano/Super models on their own edge cases rather than rely on open-weight leaderboard rankings.
- Ask vendors using Cosmos-style world models where the cost actually lands: training data curation, synthetic simulation, GPU serving, or post-training for your domain. The paper’s own recipe uses hundreds of millions of media samples and thousands of GB200 GPUs, while some high-resolution inference modes lose batching leverage, so “open-weight” does not automatically mean cheap-to-operate.
- The most consequential signal is not prettier video; it is whether a shared world model becomes a faster starting point for robot policies. The LIBERO-10 adaptation result shows mid-training gives a large early advantage, and the DROID/RoboArena claims suggest real-world promise, but buyers should demand replication on their own robots, tasks, and failure modes.
- The evidence is broad and unusually detailed, but it still leans on automated judges, time-stamped leaderboards, synthetic data, and benchmark-specific protocols. The paper itself flags reproducibility issues in one public video benchmark and a persistent sim-to-real gap for human motion, so operational deployment still needs domain validation and safety testing.
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Cosmos 3 is a unified omnimodal world-model family for language, image, video, audio, and action.
The project releases open artifacts that make external testing and specialization possible.
The system’s training recipe reflects industrial-scale compute requirements.
Benchmark and synthetic-data results should not be treated as proof of robust real-world transfer.
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