NVIDIA GTC Showcases Virtual Worlds Powering the Physical AI Era



Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse.

NVIDIA GTC last week showcased a turning point in physical AI: Robots, vehicles and factories are scaling from single use cases and isolated deployments to sophisticated enterprise workloads across industries. 

At the center of this shift are new frontier models for physical AI, including NVIDIA Cosmos 3, NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 and NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5. 

NVIDIA also released the NVIDIA Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint, designed to push the state of the art in world modeling, humanoid skills and autonomous driving, as well as the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint for AI factory digital twin simulation.

Open source agentic frameworks such as OpenClaw extend the AI stack all the way to operations — enabling long‑running “claws” that use tools, memory and messaging interfaces to orchestrate workflows, manage data pipelines and execute tasks autonomously on dedicated machines. 

“With NVIDIA and the broader ecosystem, we’re building the claws and guardrails that let anyone create powerful, secure AI assistants,” said Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, in an NVIDIA press release from GTC. 

OpenUSD is a driving force behind the scalability of physical AI — providing a common, scene‑description language that lets teams bring computer-aided design (CAD) data, simulation assets and real‑world telemetry into a shared, physically accurate view of the world. 

Simulating the AI Factory Before It’s Built

Modern AI factories are complex — spanning thermals, power grids, network load and mechanical systems. Building them on time and on budget becomes much easier when using simulation technology. 

To tackle this, NVIDIA introduced the Omniverse DSX Blueprint at GTC, a reference architecture that unifies simulation across every layer of an AI factory through a single digital twin. This enables operators to optimize performance and efficiency before a rack is installed in the real world.

Compute Is Data: Real-World Data Is No Longer the Moat

Real-world data used to function as a moat for physical AI — but it doesn’t scale. The real world is messy, unpredictable and full of edge cases, and the pipelines to process, simulate and evaluate data are fragmented. The bottleneck isn’t just data — it’s the entire data factory.

To help address this, NVIDIA introduced at GTC its Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint, an open reference architecture that transforms compute into large-scale, high-quality training data. Built on NVIDIA Cosmos open world foundation models and the NVIDIA OSMO operator, it unifies data curation, augmentation and evaluation into a single pipeline, enabling developers to generate diverse, long-tail datasets from limited real-world inputs.

Leading physical AI developers including FieldAI, Hexagon Robotics, Linker Vision, Milestone Systems, Skild AI and Teradyne Robotics are already tapping the blueprint to speed up robotics projects, vision AI agents and autonomous vehicle programs.

Microsoft Azure and Nebius are the first cloud platforms to offer the blueprint, turning world-scale compute into turnkey data production engines.

“Together with cloud leaders, we’re providing a new kind of agentic engine that transforms compute into the high-quality data required to bring the next generation of autonomous systems and robots to life,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technologies at NVIDIA, in this press release. “In this new era, compute is data.”

From OpenUSD to Reality: Seamless Design to Deployment

Converting CAD files to OpenUSD is a critical step in the physical AI pipeline — transforming engineering data into simulation-ready assets that developers can use to build, test and validate robots in physically accurate virtual environments. 

Using tools like the NVIDIA Omniverse Kit software development kit and NVIDIA Isaac Sim, teams can optimize and enrich 3D data for real-time rendering, simulation and collaborative workflows.  

Companies including FANUC and Fauna Robotics are using this seamless CAD-to-OpenUSD workflow to speed up robotic system design and validation.

Transforming Manufacturing and Logistics Through Industrial Digital Twins

“Factories themselves are now robotic systems,” Lebaredian said during his special address on digital twins and simulation at GTC. 

All factories are born in simulation. The NVIDIA Mega Omniverse Blueprint provides enterprises with a reference architecture to design, test and optimize robot fleets and AI agents in a physically accurate facility digital twin before a single robot is deployed on the floor. 

KION, working with Accenture and Siemens, is using this blueprint to build large-scale warehouse digital twins that train and test fleets of NVIDIA Jetson-based autonomous forklifts for GXO, the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider. 

Physical AI Steps From Simulation to the Real World

NVIDIA is partnering with the global robotics ecosystem — including leading robot brain developers, industrial robot giants and humanoid pioneers — to enhance production-level physical AI. 

ABB Robotics, FANUC, KUKA and Yaskawa, which have a combined global install base of over 2 million robots, are using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA Isaac simulation frameworks to validate complex robot applications and production lines through physically accurate digital twins. These companies have also integrated NVIDIA Jetson modules into their controllers to enable real-time AI inference. 

Robot development starts with the robot brains, which is why leading developers including FieldAI and Skild AI are building theirs using NVIDIA Cosmos world models for data generation and Isaac simulation frameworks to validate policies in simulation. 

Meanwhile, Generalist AI is using NVIDIA Cosmos to explore generating synthetic data. This combination allows robots to become proficient in any task — from supply chain monitoring to food delivery — at an exceptional pace. 

Read all of NVIDIA’s announcements from GTC on this online press kit and watch the keynote replay. Catch up on all Physical AI Days sessions from GTC and watch the developer livestream replay.

NVIDIA Advances Autonomous Networks With Agentic AI Blueprints and Telco Reasoning Models



Autonomous networks — intelligent, self-managing telecommunications operations — are moving from a future vision to a current priority for telecom operators. In the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Telecommunications report, network automation emerged as the top AI use case for investment and return on investment.

Automation is different from autonomy. Beyond executing predefined workflows, autonomous networks must understand operator intent, reason over tradeoffs and decide what actions to take. Reasoning models and AI agents fine-tuned on telecom data are key to enabling this shift.

For networks to become autonomous, there’s a need for an end-to-end agentic system that includes key components like telco network models and AI agents that talk to each other and use network simulation tools to validate actions.

Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, NVIDIA unveiled an open NVIDIA Nemotron-based large telco model (LTM), a comprehensive guide for building reasoning agents for network operations, and new NVIDIA Blueprints for energy saving and network configuration with multi-agent orchestration to help operators advance toward autonomy.

And as part of GSMA’s new Open Telco AI initiative — launching tomorrow — NVIDIA is releasing the new open source LTM, implementation guide and agentic AI blueprints as open resources through GSMA, an organization for the mobile communications industry.

Open Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model Brings Reasoning to Telecom 

For telcos to successfully operationalize generative and agentic AI across their operations, AI models must have the ability to understand the language of telecom and reason through complex workflows. NVIDIA has collaborated with AdaptKey AI to release a new open source, 30-billion-parameter NVIDIA Nemotron LTM that operators around the world can use to build autonomous networks.

Built on the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family of foundation models and fine-tuned by AdaptKey AI using open telecom datasets including industry standards and synthetic logs, the LTM is optimized to understand telecom industry terminology and reason through workflows such as fault isolation, remediation planning and change validation.

As an open model, the Nemotron LTM gives telcos full transparency into how it was trained and what data was used, enabling secure and fast on‑premises deployment within their networks, where they can build and run agents directly. It also lets telcos safely adapt and extend telecom‑tuned reasoning with their own network and operational data, so they can move toward autonomous operations without sacrificing control over data or security.

Teaching AI Agents to Reason Like Network Engineers

NVIDIA and Tech Mahindra have published an open source guide that shows telecom operators how to fine-tune domain-specific reasoning models and build agents that can safely execute network operations center (NOC) workflows.

The guide outlines a framework for teaching models to reason like NOC engineers: focus on high‑impact, high‑frequency incident categories, translate expert resolutions into step‑by‑step procedures and turn those into structured reasoning traces that capture each action, tool call, outcome and decision. These traces become the “thinking examples” the model learns from, so it understands not just what to do, but why a particular sequence of checks and fixes is safe and effective.

Using the NVIDIA NeMo-Skills pipeline, operators can fine-tune a reasoning model on these traces, laying the foundation for telco-specialized AI agents that can reason and solve problems like a network engineer.

Maximizing Energy Efficiency With New Intent-Driven Energy Saving Blueprint

Autonomous networks rely on closed‑loop operation: models that understand the network, agents that act on intent and simulation that feeds results back into the system to validate and refine decisions. The new NVIDIA Blueprint for intent-driven RAN energy efficiency brings these pieces together, helping operators systematically reduce power consumption in 5G radio access networks (RAN) while maintaining quality of service.

The blueprint integrates network test and measurement leader VIAVI’s TeraVM AI RAN Scenario Generator (AI RSG) platform to generate synthetic network data — including cell utilization, user throughput and other traffic patterns — and convert it into a simple, queryable format.

An energy planning agent then reasons over the synthetic data to generate energy-saving policies that can be simulated in AI RSG, allowing operators to safely validate energy-saving policies in a closed loop to meet their intent without changing live configurations or impacting subscribers.

Telcos Put the NVIDIA Blueprint for Network Configuration to Work

The NVIDIA Blueprint for telco network configuration is being adopted by operators around the world.

Cassava Technologies is using the blueprint to build Cassava Autonomous Network, an agentic platform designed to optimize Africa’s diverse, multi-vendor mobile network environment. The platform implements three agents: one to monitor the network and recommend configuration changes, one to apply changes with documentation and governance, and one to assess the impact of changes made and safely roll them back if they have unintended effects.

NTT DATA is implementing the blueprint to bring intelligence to traffic regulation, helping the network manage surges when users reconnect after an outage, and is deploying it with a tier 1 operator in Japan.

An AI agent looks at real-time demand across the network and then decides when and how to admit new users on specific cells. As conditions stabilize, the agent adapts its decisions, turning what used to be manual configurations into a data-driven optimization cycle for more resilient mobile networks.

Evolving Network Configuration With Multi-Agent Orchestration

To help telcos design, observe and optimize complex agentic workflows across the RAN, NVIDIA and BubbleRAN are enhancing the NVIDIA Blueprint for telco network configuration with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit (NAT) and BubbleRAN Agentic Toolkit (BAT), complementary frameworks for multi-agent orchestration.

BubbleRAN is integrating NAT and BAT into its Opti-Sphere platform to manage network monitoring, configuration and validation agents more flexibly across containers and workloads, and connect them to tools that report network metrics and traffic status so they can continuously propose and validate configuration changes.

Telenor Group will be the first telco to adopt the blueprint with BubbleRAN to enhance its 5G network for Telenor Maritime, the group’s global connectivity provider at sea.

Learn more about the latest advancements in agentic AI for telecommunications at Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona from March 2-5. 

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