--- title: How Open Models Are Driving AI Research | daily.dev description: NVIDIA's open model families — Nemotron, Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, and BioNeMo — are playing a central role at ICML 2026, with 145 papers citing Nemotron and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-open-models-are-driving-ai-research-y1h7ugicm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Open Models Are Driving AI Research | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA's open model families — Nemotron, Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, and BioNeMo — are playing a central role at ICML 2026, with 145 papers citing Nemotron and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-open-models-are-driving-ai-research-y1h7ugicm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y1H7UgIcM.png og:image:alt: How Open Models Are Driving AI Research og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Open Models Are Driving AI Research **[NVIDIA](https://daily.dev/sources/nvidia)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA's open model families — Nemotron, Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, and BioNeMo — are playing a central role at ICML 2026, with 145 papers citing Nemotron and hundreds more drawing on other NVIDIA open models. Key research themes include robot world models (e.g., DreamDojo built on Cosmos), AI for life sciences (protein mutation prediction, drug discovery via KERMT), and synthetic data generation. The ecosystem extends beyond NVIDIA's own labs, with companies like Sakana AI, KiloCode, NAVER, Merck, and multiple robotics firms building on these open foundations. Nemotron is increasingly used as a full research stack — open weights, datasets, and recipes — rather than a single model release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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