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Nvidia Unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, Expands Physical AI Partnerships in Japan

• By John K. Waters
• 07/16/2026

Nvidia introduced Cosmos 3 Edge, a new addition to its Cosmos 3 family of open world models for physical AI, and announced that a group of Japanese manufacturing and technology companies intend to build on its physical AI stack, the company said in a statement.

The announcement came during a two-day visit to Japan by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang, part of a broader push by the company to deepen its presence in the country's artificial intelligence and robotics sectors.

What Cosmos 3 Edge Is
Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to help robots and vision AI agents perceive their surroundings, reason in real time, and generate robot actions locally rather than in the cloud. Unlike the two variants Nvidia launched in May, Cosmos 3 Super and Cosmos 3 Nano, which are initialized from pretrained Qwen3-VL weights, Edge is a dense model trained from scratch, according to Nvidia's own technical report on the Cosmos 3 architecture, published in June.

Nvidia said developers can adapt the base Cosmos 3 Edge model to specific robots, vehicles, sensors and environments in about a day using the open Cosmos framework. The model is lightweight enough to run on edge GPUs, and Nvidia said it can be deployed across its RTX graphics processors, DGX systems and Jetson computing modules, including two newly announced modules, the Jetson T2000 and T3000, per the release.

Cosmos 3, the broader model family Edge extends, was first introduced in May as what Nvidia described as the first fully open omnimodal model combining physical reasoning, world generation and action generation using a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture, according to a separate Nvidia release from that launch. Nvidia has made Cosmos 3 Super and Nano available on Hugging Face and GitHub, along with training scripts and datasets, and has extended access through cloud infrastructure partners, including Microsoft Azure and CoreWeave.

Japanese Companies Join Cosmos Coalition
Nvidia said a group of Japanese companies intends to join the Nvidia Cosmos Coalition, a collaboration among world model builders, AI developers and physical AI companies meant to advance open world models. Named companies include AIRoA, Fanuc, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank, Sony and Yaskawa Electric.

Fujitsu is exploring development of a collaborative control platform for physical AI, while Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries are integrating Nvidia technologies more directly into their own systems. A separate group of companies, including Honda R&D, Omron, Mitsui, Telexistence and Enactic, are building applications on top of Nvidia's physical AI stack, spanning retail automation, elder care robotics and industrial inspection.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia's founder and chief executive, framed the partnerships in terms of Japan's manufacturing history. "Japan invented modern manufacturing. Now, it has the opportunity to reinvent it for the age of intelligent industries," he said, according to a report from Evertiq.

Context
Huang's visit also included a meeting with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, where he appeared alongside Minister Ryohei Akazawa, according to a report by BigGo Finance citing Japanese media coverage of the event. The visit followed criticism in Japan over a previous Nvidia travel itinerary that included stops in South Korea and Taiwan but skipped Japan, an omission Japanese media had characterized as a snub.

Nvidia also unveiled new Jetson edge computing hardware alongside the Cosmos 3 Edge model, and Huang addressed reports of delays to the company's next-generation Vera Rubin computing system, saying it remains in production and on schedule, according to BigGo Finance's coverage of the announcements. That claim regarding Vera Rubin had not been independently confirmed by English-language wire services as of this writing.