# NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 for World Simulation

> The new open models push NVIDIA's world-foundation effort toward interactive, real-time video generation.

Published by The Open Weights on Nov 5, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/nvidia-cosmos-3-dcud

## Key facts

- Company: NVIDIA
- Model: NVIDIA Cosmos 3
- Version: Cosmos 3
- Category: Image → Video
- Modalities: Image → Video, Text → Video
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Last verified: 2026-11-09
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/nvidia-cosmos-3-dcud

NVIDIA has introduced Cosmos 3, the latest generation of its open models aimed at interactive world simulation and video generation. According to the company's announcement on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-interactive-world-simulation), the models can generate video from both text prompts and input images, extending NVIDIA's ongoing effort to build foundation models that understand and predict physical environments.

## What it does

Cosmos sits in a growing category of "world models" — systems designed to simulate how a scene evolves over time rather than simply producing a static image. That focus on interactivity and continuity makes the family especially relevant to robotics, autonomous systems, and other domains where machines need a sense of how the world behaves.

The release emphasizes two core capabilities:

- **Image-to-video**, turning a single frame into a coherent generated sequence
- **Text-to-video**, producing motion and scenes directly from written prompts

The models are published under a custom license, continuing NVIDIA's pattern of making weights broadly available while attaching its own usage terms rather than a standard open-source license.

**Why it matters:** High-quality simulated environments are a bottleneck for training physical AI. By releasing Cosmos 3 openly, NVIDIA gives researchers and developers a way to generate synthetic worlds and video data without building such systems from scratch — a meaningful step as interactive simulation becomes central to robotics and embodied AI. Full details are available in NVIDIA's [Cosmos 3 announcement](https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos-interactive-world-simulation).

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