Release2026-11-05

NVIDIA released four new open-weight Cosmos 3 Nano checkpoints. Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto generates multi-view driving data with varied weather and lighting. Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto streams synchronized camera and LiDAR observations for driving simulation. Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer turns simulator controls and text prompts into photorealistic video. Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Bimanual predicts video from robot or camera actions. All models have 16B trainable parameters. They use the OpenMDW1.1 license for commercial and non-commercial use. Developers can adapt the models to their own sensor rigs and domains. Streaming generation supports fast, interactive rollouts. The models are available on Hugging Face.

What changed

Cosmos 3 Nano had no open-weight checkpoints for interactive world simulation or multi-sensor driving scenes.

What it unlocks

Generating interactive world simulations and multi-sensor driving scenes with open weights.

  • 4 new open-weight checkpoints
  • 16B trainable parameters per model
  • up to 11 camera views
  • 4 RGB frames per latent time step

What you need to act on it

  • Linux
  • an NVIDIA GPU
  • Docker
  • NVIDIA Container Toolkit

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