NVIDIA opens four Cosmos 3 models for driving and robot simulation
Open-weight models generate interactive video for self-driving data and robot simulation, and can be downloaded from Hugging Face.
NVIDIA released four free programs that make realistic video scenes. Developers use them to train self-driving cars and robots in a virtual world.
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The details
- The four models are Transfer-Auto, Sim-Auto, Sim-Transfer and Sim-Bimanual, all built on Cosmos 3 Nano.
- Transfer-Auto generates driving data from up to 11 cameras with varied weather and lighting.
- Sim-Bimanual predicts video from robot actions for two-arm simulation.
- The licence is OpenMDW1.1, which allows commercial and non-commercial use under its terms.
- Checkpoints are in the cosmos3-examples collection on Hugging Face, and code is on GitHub.
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