Cosmos

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Ethan He: Video Foundation Models Follow Scaling Laws Like LLMs
“There, once I built the Cosmos one, I realized as this thing also has a scaling law similar to language model.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 3:11 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ethan He: NVIDIA spent about a year building the Cosmos model
“One thing I say, like, thanks to my experience at NVIDIA, because first time when we were building Cosmos together, we built it for about a year.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 5:13 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Ethan He: NVIDIA Cosmos required labelers to describe videos for blind reconstruction
“So that's in the protocol of Cosmos labeling. We required the objective we gave to the labelers was that you have to describe the video as detailed as possible, such that a blind person hears a blob of text, can reconstruct what the video is like from their he…”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 13:39 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
NVIDIA Cosmos trained on tens of trillions of visual tokens
“And if you look at a number of tokens we disclose that in cosmos, it's also like tens of trillions of tokens. On the visual tokens.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 37:55 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
He: NVIDIA Cosmos runs in 4 to 8 steps, or 1 step for transfer
“In Cosmos, I believe we have like four steps and eight steps. If you do some simpler task, like image to image translation, it can even run in first step, that one step in, in Cosmos transfer.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 40:23 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
NVIDIA Cosmos uses 50,000 to 60,000 tokens for five seconds of video
“Yeah, for example, like in Cosmos, I think just five seconds of video is like a 50, 50 K or a 60 K number of tokens. So like, if you do 50 seconds as a 500 K tokens, if you do longer than that, easily explode.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 56:16 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
LATENT SPACE Disclosure
Ethan He: NVIDIA Cosmos uses a 7B video model with a larger LLM rewriter
“I think in in Cosmos, we use Lama or we use mix, mix through. And the Cosmos video model itself is only seven B, and the model, the language model is a prompt rewriter. It's bigger than that.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 1:15:37 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
ALL-IN Disclosure
Charles Koch: Koch Industries backs Cosmos to advance market-based AI
“I mean, that's why we back Cosmos, who is doing, backing people who do AI based on these principles of market-based management, based on these principles of human progress.”
Charles Koch May 12, 2026 ▶ 1:28:41 How We Grew Koch Industries to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
White: Cosmos's 50% benchmark score stems from subjective result interpretation
“That number that was 50% that came from cosmos's interpretation of some of the analysis. So like it might go in literature and find this result. And then it would say, wow, this is super exciting. This is amazing. Or it might do data analysis, but this is a no…”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 33:59 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
White: A world model serves as unifying glue for scientific agents
“In cosmos, we basically, we had all the pieces sitting around. We working on world models, we working on data analysis agent, working on literature agent. And then we're working on, you know, we built a platform for scientific agents. So we had things that can…”
Andrew White Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 38:21 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Epic's Cosmos platform holds anonymized data from 295 million patients
“Cosmos has 295 million patients worth of data in it, all anonymized.”
Ben Gilbert Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 2:56:44 Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Epic's Cosmos database is free for institutions that contribute data
“And it's accessible to any institution for free that contributes data in. So of all the Epic customers, Anyone who opts in gets to access and query it for research or cool stuff.”
Ben Gilbert Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 2:59:04 Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Lebaredian: NVIDIA has worked towards Cosmos for about a decade
“We've been working towards Cosmos For probably about 10 years, we envisioned that eventually this new technology that had formed with deep learning, that that was going to be the critical technology necessary for us to create robot brains.”
Rev Lebaredian Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 14:46 NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
Lebaredian: NVIDIA Cosmos Is a Different Class of AI From Video Generators
“What we're doing with cosmos it's, It is really a different class of AI than video generators. You can use it to generate videos, but the purpose is different. It's not about generating beautiful imagery or interesting imagery as for art. This is about simulat…”
Rev Lebaredian Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 34:06 NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Carlson-Wee: Cosmos is first system enabling cross-blockchain interaction
“And Cosmos is a great example, launched just about a month ago. And it's sort of the first system we've ever seen that will allow cross blockchain interaction.”
Olaf Carlson-Wee May 8, 2019 ▶ 29:39 Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Kwon: Cosmos is building an interoperable network of blockchains
“We use this to create a network of blockchains that can talk to each other and interoperate, and that's called Cosmos. That's the project we're building.”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 9:40 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Kwon: Cosmos avoids the term 'ICO' to sidestep securities classification
“You know, we avoid the term ICO precisely because we don't want to associate it with a security offering.”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 10:57 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Kwon: Cosmos contributors will receive Atom staking and governance tokens at Genesis
“And on Genesis Day, all the contributors are going to get, on that Genesis block Atom tokens. They are staking tokens. They're tokens that allow you to vote on the blockchain, participate in consensus, you know, make governance governance decisions about where…”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 11:21 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Kwon: Cosmos reached its $17 million fundraising cap in 29 minutes
“We raised we had a cap of seventeen million. At USD? USD. So we filled that cap in 29 minutes, so we had to stop accepting funds.”
Jay Kwon Oct 23, 2017 ▶ 12:08 821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"

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