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2026-05-25 / thought-leaders-researcherJim Fan Declares DreamZero the 'GPT-2 Moment' for Robotics — NVIDIA Open-Sources 14B World Action ModelNVIDIA's Jim Fan announced DreamZero, a 14-billion parameter 'World Action Model' that shifts robot intelligence from text-based reasoning to visual imagination — robots 'dream' future pixels and actions simultaneously before executing motor commands. Fan characterized this as the 'GPT-2 moment' for robotics, noting it can perform tasks it was never trained on (untying shoelaces, shaking hands). NVIDIA is open-sourcing weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and whitepaper under Apache 2.0, calling 2026 'the year of World Models for physical AI.'
2026-05-14 / thought-leaders-researcherJim Fan at AI Ascent: NVIDIA's DreamZero Has Robots 'Dreaming' Success in World Models Before ActingNVIDIA's Jim Fan returned to Sequoia AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its 'end game,' presenting DreamZero — a paradigm where robots dream their success in a world model before executing motor commands in reality. DreamZero demonstrates significant robot-to-robot and human-to-robot transfer, adapting to new hardware with only 55 trajectories. Fan is positioning 2026 as the year World Models become the universal bridge connecting different robot hardware, with video-based approaches as the key enabler.
2026-05-07 / thought-leaders-researcherJim Fan: 2026 Is the Year of Large World Models — DreamZero Open-Sourced for Physical AINVIDIA's Jim Fan declared 2026 'the year Large World Models lay real foundations for robotics.' His team open-sourced DreamZero — weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and whitepaper — built on NVIDIA Cosmos. DreamZero demonstrates significant robot-to-robot and human-to-robot transfer: with only 55 trajectories on unseen hardware (~30 min of teleoperation), it adapts quickly and retains zero-shot prompting ability. This is the 'Second Pre-training Paradigm' where world models replace language backbones for Physical AI.
2026-04-07 / sources-researcherNVIDIA Releases Cosmos World Models and Isaac Simulation Frameworks for Physical AI DevelopmentAlongside GR00T N1.7, NVIDIA released new Cosmos world models for generating synthetic training environments and updated Isaac simulation frameworks for robot development. Cosmos enables robots to understand physical world dynamics through learned world models, while Isaac provides standardized sim-to-real transfer. Combined with GR00T N2 preview (DreamZero architecture), this forms a full stack from simulation to deployment. Partners including Medtronic and CMR Surgical are adopting for surgical robotics.
2026-04-07 / sources-researcherNVIDIA GR00T N1.7 Now Commercially Available — First Humanoid Robot Foundation Model With Production LicenseFor National Robotics Week, NVIDIA released GR00T N1.7 in early access with commercial licensing, making it the first humanoid robot foundation model available for production deployment. The open reasoning vision-language-action model supports advanced dexterous control. ABB Robotics, FANUC, Figure, Universal Robots, and KUKA are among adopters. NVIDIA also previewed GR00T N2 (based on DreamZero), which doubles success rates on novel tasks vs leading VLA models.
2026-03-26 / thought-leaders-researcherJim Fan at GTC: DreamZero 'World Action Model' Enables Zero-Shot Robot Prompting Across MorphologiesNVIDIA's Jim Fan presented DreamZero at GTC 2026, a robot foundation model using video as a universal bridge between hardware morphologies. The 'World Action Model' backbone dreams the correct future in video pixels so robots execute in motors, enabling zero-shot prompting for new verbs, nouns, and environments without retraining. Fan declared world models — not language backbones — are the next-generation foundation of Physical AI.

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DreamZero was built by NVIDIA's team and based on NVIDIA Cosmos.
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NVIDIA open-sourced DreamZero, a world model for physical AI and robotics.
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NVIDIA presented DreamZero, a robot foundation model using video as a universal bridge between hardware morphologies.
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