Sanja Fidler
University of Toronto associate professor and Vector Institute co-founder; co-author of NVIDIA Cosmos
Sanja Fidler is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and an affiliated faculty member of the Vector Institute, where Fidler was one of the co-founding members. Fidler's research is in computer vision and machine learning, especially where vision meets graphics: 3D vision, 3D reconstruction and synthesis, and interactive methods for image annotation. Fidler's CV lists AI roles at NVIDIA from May 2018, first as Director of AI, then Senior Director of AI, and from March 2022 as Vice President of AI Research, heading an NVIDIA research lab. Fidler is a co-author of the 2025 Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform paper, whose abstract says the platform is open-source with open-weight models under permissive licenses.134
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NVIDIA CosmosOpen weights
Listed among the authors of "Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI" (January 2025), which presents NVIDIA's world foundation models, video curation pipeline and tokenizers and states that the models are released open-weight under permissive licenses.4
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