NVIDIA advances Physical AI for smart cities

NVIDIA announced Metropolis updates and partnerships to advance Physical AI for smart cities and industrial operations.

• Partnerships & deployments: NVIDIA is collaborating with Accenture and Belden on smart virtual fences using Omniverse and Metropolis digital twins; Avathon integrated Metropolis VSS to improve safety during construction of Reliance British Petroleum Mobility Limited gas stations; DeepHow used Metropolis VSS to convert SOPs and reduced onboarding time by 80% for Anheuser-Busch InBev; Milestone Systems is building Project Hafnia, a large real-world computer-vision data library and fine-tuned VLMs; Telit Cinterion integrated NVIDIA TAO Toolkit 6 and models like FoundationPose for defect detection and quality control. (Confirmed actions: integrations and deployments described.)

• Metropolis product updates & availability: Release of Cosmos Reason (open, customizable, 7-billion-parameter VLM) for contextual video reasoning and edge/cloud deployment; VSS 2.4 (upcoming) to augment vision pipelines with Cosmos Reason; NVIDIA TAO Toolkit 6.0 and new vision foundation models plus a DeepStream Inference Builder to deploy TAO 6 models; Isaac Sim extensions for synthetic data generation; expanded hardware support for RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, DGX Spark and Jetson Thor. Cosmos Reason 1 and NVIDIA TAO 6.0 are now available for download; users can sign up to be alerted when VSS 2.4, Cosmos Reason fine-tuning update and DeepStream 8.0 become available. (Distinguishes available releases vs features pending release.)