What NVIDIA Apollo means for physical/spatial AI

NVIDIA is upleveling its Omniverse platform with NVIDIA Apollo, a new family of open models that combine AI surrogate models with traditional physical simulation methods. In the short run, this will speed simulations by tens to thousands of times, enabling developers to integrate real-time capabilities into their simulation software across a broad range of industries.

This is a big deal because the gold standards in simulation often require days or weeks to run. The AI techniques are faster but make mistakes in unintuitive ways. Apollo will make it easier for engineers to test ideas quickly and then ground-truth the best ones or combinations for more robust validation.

The NVIDIA Omniverse is at the center of the action. It builds on the OpenUSD specification to translate data between engineering tools and formats from different vendors, as well as open-source representations. NVIDIA laid the foundation for rendering compelling 3D visualizations that model ...