RESEARCH PAPERSubmitted 28 Oct 2025

World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI

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NVIDIA; :; Arslan Ali; Junjie Bai; Maciej Bala; Yogesh Balaji; Aaron Blakeman; Tiffany Cai; Jiaxin Cao; Tianshi Cao; Elizabeth Cha; Yu-Wei Chao; Prithvijit Chattopadhyay; Mike Chen; Yongxin Chen; Yu Chen; Shuai Cheng; Yin Cui; Jenna Diamond; Yifan Ding; Jiaojiao Fan; Linxi Fan; Liang Feng; Francesco Ferroni; Sanja Fidler; Xiao Fu; Ruiyuan Gao; Yunhao Ge; Jinwei Gu; Aryaman Gupta; Siddharth Gururani; Imad El Hanafi; Ali Hassani; Zekun Hao; Jacob Huffman; Joel Jang; Pooya Jannaty; Jan Kautz; Grace Lam; Xuan Li; Zhaoshuo Li; Maosheng Liao; Chen-Hsuan Lin; Tsung-Yi Lin; Yen-Chen Lin; Huan Ling; Ming-Yu Liu; Xian Liu; Yifan Lu; Alice Luo; Qianli Ma; Hanzi Mao; Kaichun Mo; Seungjun Nah; Yashraj Narang; Abhijeet Panaskar; Lindsey Pavao; Trung Pham; Morteza Ramezanali; Fitsum Reda; Scott Reed; Xuanchi Ren; Haonan Shao; Yue Shen; Stella Shi; Shuran Song; Bartosz Stefaniak; Shangkun Sun; Shitao Tang; Sameena Tasmeen; Lyne Tchapmi; Wei-Cheng Tseng; Jibin Varghese; Andrew Z. Wang; Hao Wang; Haoxiang Wang; Heng Wang; Ting-Chun Wang; Fangyin Wei; Jiashu Xu; Dinghao Yang; Xiaodong Yang; Haotian Ye; Seonghyeon Ye; Xiaohui Zeng; Jing Zhang; Qinsheng Zhang; Kaiwen Zheng; Andrew Zhu; Yuke Zhu

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Major category: Components of WAMs
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Subcategories: Video & world prediction backbones Video generation backbones
Source review status: Verified from primary sources

Category review. Cosmos-Predict2.5 is a general text/visual-conditioned video foundation backbone with VAE latents, text embedding and flow-transformer generation; controlled and robot-action variants are adaptations. This technical report supplies the transferable Cosmos backbone explicitly intended by the component category. Reading evidence

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@article{cosmos,
      title={World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI}, 
      author={NVIDIA and : and Arslan Ali and Junjie Bai and Maciej Bala and Yogesh Balaji and Aaron Blakeman and Tiffany Cai and Jiaxin Cao and Tianshi Cao and Elizabeth Cha and Yu-Wei Chao and Prithvijit Chattopadhyay and Mike Chen and Yongxin Chen and Yu Chen and Shuai Cheng and Yin Cui and Jenna Diamond and Yifan Ding and Jiaojiao Fan and Linxi Fan and Liang Feng and Francesco Ferroni and Sanja Fidler and Xiao Fu and Ruiyuan Gao and Yunhao Ge and Jinwei Gu and Aryaman Gupta and Siddharth Gururani and Imad El Hanafi and Ali Hassani and Zekun Hao and Jacob Huffman and Joel Jang and Pooya Jannaty and Jan Kautz and Grace Lam and Xuan Li and Zhaoshuo Li and Maosheng Liao and Chen-Hsuan Lin and Tsung-Yi Lin and Yen-Chen Lin and Huan Ling and Ming-Yu Liu and Xian Liu and Yifan Lu and Alice Luo and Qianli Ma and Hanzi Mao and Kaichun Mo and Seungjun Nah and Yashraj Narang and Abhijeet Panaskar and Lindsey Pavao and Trung Pham and Morteza Ramezanali and Fitsum Reda and Scott Reed and Xuanchi Ren and Haonan Shao and Yue Shen and Stella Shi and Shuran Song and Bartosz Stefaniak and Shangkun Sun and Shitao Tang and Sameena Tasmeen and Lyne Tchapmi and Wei-Cheng Tseng and Jibin Varghese and Andrew Z. Wang and Hao Wang and Haoxiang Wang and Heng Wang and Ting-Chun Wang and Fangyin Wei and Jiashu Xu and Dinghao Yang and Xiaodong Yang and Haotian Ye and Seonghyeon Ye and Xiaohui Zeng and Jing Zhang and Qinsheng Zhang and Kaiwen Zheng and Andrew Zhu and Yuke Zhu},
      year={2025},
      journal={arXiv:2511.00062},
}

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