PodcastPractical AIOctober 1, 2026

Open models and the future of Physical AI with NVIDIA

NVIDIA is positioning open "world model" releases like Cosmos as the hardware-adjacent R&D and ecosystem lever for physical AI, not just philanthropy.

Open models as strategy: NVIDIA VP Ming-Yu Liu says open models give innovation and freedom beyond what APIs allow, letting customers customize for unforeseen applications.
NVIDIA builds models to build chips: Liu says NVIDIA creates open models (Cosmos, Nemotron) partly to understand application needs, informing future GPU/SoC architecture decisions.

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