Cosmos Reason 2 arrives as the next step so that vision-language models (VLMs) don’t just recognize images, but actually think about the physical world: plan, predict trajectories, and take concrete steps in robotic tasks and video analytics. Sounds like science fiction? Not so much: NVIDIA releases it as an open model aimed at real applications, from video analytics to robotic control.
What is Cosmos Reason 2
Cosmos Reason 2 is an open vision-language reasoning model focused on Physical AI: seeing, understanding, planning, and acting in the physical world. The core idea is to close the gap between recognizing objects and reasoning about them over time: movements, forces, uncertainty, and step-by-step planning.
Think of a robot that doesn’t just detect a box, but estimates its trajectory, decides the best way to pick it up, and adjusts the plan if something changes. That’s what Cosmos Reason 2 aims for.
