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January 6, 2025
in AI Engineering, Simulation, Trustworthy AI
3 min read

World models need worlds worth trusting

Robots and autonomous vehicles need experience. The hard question is where that experience should come from when real-world data is expensive, dangerous, rare, or incomplete.

NVIDIA's January 6 announcement of Cosmos world foundation models offers one answer: generate and manipulate simulated physical environments at scale. The company presents the platform as infrastructure for training and evaluating physical artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including robotics and autonomous vehicles.

January 2, 2025
in AI Assurance, Defense Technology, Human-Centered AI
3 min read

AI assurance has to survive contact with the mission

The first consequential defense artificial intelligence story of 2025 does not arrive as a new model or a weapons demonstration. It arrives as an invitation to test.

The Department of Defense's (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) begins January with a crowdsourced assurance pilot in military medicine. The setting matters. A medical system can perform impressively on average and still fail a clinician or patient at exactly the wrong moment. Its quality cannot be separated from the people, workflow, uncertainty, and consequences around it.