Nvidia unveils new AI model and expands Japan’s physical AI ecosystem

Nvidia  unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan.

The company’s new model, Cosmos 3 Edge, is a so-called world model, designed to help systems perceive and navigate physical environments in real time. Cosmos 3 edge is a World models are systems that can learn from a wider range of inputs compared to large language models (LLMs). The rollout follows the launch of Cosmos 3 in May.

The regional expansion takes center stage during CEO Jensen Huang’s two-day visit to Japan, where the Silicon Valley chip giant is expanding its physical AI footprint by forming a coalition that local industrial giants, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, intend to join, according to Nvidia.

“The next frontier of AI is in the physical world, and this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Japan,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a Wednesday statement. “Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now, it has the opportunity to reinvent it for the age of intelligent industries.” 

The tech giant’s partnership with Japanese firms comes just months after Microsoft

’s $10 billion investment in the country, which aims to build out AI infrastructure and beef up cybersecurity. Japanese investment giant SoftBank has bet heavily on the boom in AI. It’s looking to partner with Microsoft and Sakura Internet to develop AI in Japan.