BIRMINGHAM, AL — Local man Brett Callahan informed his wife that he wouldn't be able to mow the lawn today as he was completely tied up playing a lawn-mowing simulator.
pixabay By Mark Keenan As Europe and much of North America endured record heat, headlines quickly appeared claiming that the heat wave was "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change. Really?
Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open AI world model designed to help robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems better understand and predict real-world environments. Why it matters: Nvidia is continuing its move beyond chips into AI models and software, positioning itself to become a foundational platform for physical AI development. Driving the news: Nvidia says it trained Cosmos 3 on 20 trillion tokens of multimodal data, including nearly a billion images, 400 million real and synthetic videos, ambient audio, text and action data from humans and robots. - That action data is what makes Cosmos different from a regular video generator. It's meant to model how machines move, not just how scenes look, Ming-Yu Liu, VP of Nvidia's…