Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

NVIDIA

Sells to all of them: GPUs, Cosmos, GR00T, Isaac, neural operators.

Ticker
NASDAQ:NVDA
HQ
Santa Clara
Founded
1993
Web
nvidia.com
Camps
World models Physical AI LLM scaling Physics AI

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What it does

Nvidia sells the compute every camp runs on, and it also ships models: Cosmos world models as a data engine for robots, the GR00T humanoid foundation models, Isaac simulation, and the neural-operator work (FourCastNet) that seeded the physics camp. GR00T N2, previewed at GTC 2026, is built on world-model research.

Camp membership over time

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    World models
    Cosmos world foundation models as a data engine for robots; Cosmos 3 announced at GTC 2026.
    Sources NVIDIA expands open model families to power the next wave of agentic, physical and healthcare AI 2026-03-16
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    Physical AI and robotics
    GR00T N1 (March 2025) was the first open humanoid foundation model; N2 previewed at GTC 2026.
    Sources NVIDIA announces Isaac GR00T N1, the world's first open humanoid robot foundation model 2025-03-18 · NVIDIA expands open model families to power the next wave of agentic, physical and healthcare AI 2026-03-16
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    Scale next-token prediction (secondary)
    GPUs for everyone; Nemotron open models.
    Sources NVIDIA expands open model families to power the next wave of agentic, physical and healthcare AI 2026-03-16
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    Physics AI and AI for science (secondary)
    Neural operators (FNO, FourCastNet) came out of Nvidia research.
    Sources FourCastNet (Nvidia) arXiv 2022-02-22

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People

BCBryan CatanzaroVP, applied deep learning research
YCYejin ChoiProfessor; distinguished scientist
DDDale DurranProfessor; principal research scientist
JFJim FanCo-lead, GEAR lab
Dieter FoxSenior director of robotics research
Jensen HuangCEO and co-founder; GR00T
JKJan KautzVP of learning and perception research
KKKarsten KreisPrincipal research scientist
TYTsung-Yi LinResearch director
XBXue Bin PengAssistant professor; research scientist
MSMichael S. PritchardAssociate professor; director of climate simulation research
AVAshish VaswaniNemotron open models
ZWZian WangResearch manager, Spatial Intelligence Lab
YZYuke ZhuAssociate professor; distinguished research scientist
Sanja FidlerVP of AI research; led the Spatial Intelligence Lab (until 2026)