Nvidia’s Cosmos Reason 2 aims to bring reasoning VLMs into the physical world

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said last year that we are now entering the age of physical AI. While the company continues to offer LLMs for software use cases, Nvidia is increasingly positioning itself as a provider of AI models for fully AI-powered systems — including agentic AI in the physical world.

At CES 2026, Nvidia announced a slate of new models designed to push AI agents beyond chat interfaces and into physical environments.

Nvidia launched Cosmos Reason 2, the latest version of its vision-language model designed for embodied reasoning. Cosmos Reason 1, released last year, introduced a two-dimensional ontology for embodied reasoning and currently leads Hugging Face’s physical reasoning for video leaderboard.

Cosmos Reason 2 builds on the same ontology while giving enterprises more flexibility to customize applications and enabling physical agents to plan their next actions, similar to how software-based agents reason through digital workflows.

Nvidia also released a ...