World Models: The Frontier of Physical AI | Physical AI Day at SIGGRAPH 2026

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Physical AI begins with the ability to see, understand, generate, and simulate the world, and world models are at the center of that shift. In this session from NVIDIA Physical AI Day at SIGGRAPH 2026, Ming-Yu Liu, Vice President of Cosmos Lab at NVIDIA, introduces world models and explains why 3D graphics is essential to their development. Explore NVIDIA Cosmos 3, the latest open frontier world model, featuring a breakthrough architecture built to accelerate vision reasoning, synthetic data generation, and policy training. Learn how generative AI, simulation, and agentic AI are converging to advance physical AI. Learn more about NVIDIA Cosmos → https://nvda.ws/3TWRJ4y About NVIDIA Omniverse: NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a platform that enables developers to easily integrate Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and RTX rendering technologies into existing software tools and simulation workflows for building AI systems. ⬇️ Get Started → https://nvda.ws/4cZAZO1 👀 Explore OpenUSD → https://nvda.ws/3CeozBQ 👥 Join the Community → https://nvda.ws/3ZMfc6e Please note that this video is intended for informational purposes only, and should not be treated as a source for official product or company announcements. #OpenUSD #3D #DigitalTwins #NVIDIAOmniverse

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