Cosmos Cookoff

Cosmos Cookoff is a global virtual hackathon run by Nvidia that asks teams to build applications using the company’s Cosmos family of world foundation models for physical AI. It is aimed at developers, researchers and system builders working on robotics, autonomous vehicles and video analytics. Participants submit projects to be judged on technical implementation, design, potential impact and overall quality. Winners receive cash prizes and Nvidia hardware and all participants gain access to tutorials, partner talks and technical guidance.

$3,000 and an Nvidia DGX Spark system for first place; $2,000 and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU for second place; $500 in brev credits for third place; access to tutorials, partner talks, live Q&A sessions and technical guidance from Nvidia specialists.

The challenge invites developers, researchers and system builders, including teams working across robotics, autonomous vehicles and video analytics.

Register online and submit final project by the submission deadline; registration opened Jan 29 and closed Feb 19 with final project submissions due Feb 26.