By Timothy Costa
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 22:30:00
NVIDIA Apollo — a family of open models for accelerating industrial and computational engineering — was introduced today at the SC25 conference in St. Louis.
Accelerated by NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the new AI physics models will enable developers to integrate real-time capabilities into their simulation software across a broad range of industries.
The NVIDIA Apollo family will include physics-optimized models — each developed for scalability, performance and accuracy — for fields including:
- Electronic device automation and semiconductors: Defect detection, computational lithography, electrothermal and mechanical design.
- Structural mechanics: Structural analysis for automotive, consumer electronics and aerospace.
- Weather and climate: Global and regional forecasting, downscaling, data assimilation and weather simulation.
- Computational fluid dynamics: Simulations for manufacturing, automotive, aerospace and energy.
- Electromagnetics: Simulation of wireless communication, radar sensing and high-speed optical data.
- Multiphysics: Nuclear fusion, plasma simulations and fluids structure interaction.
The family of open models harness the latest developments in AI physics, incorporating best-in-class machine learning architectures, such as neural operators, transformers and diffusion methods, with domain-specific knowledge.
NVIDIA Apollo will provide pretrained checkpoints and reference workflows for training, inference and benchmarking, allowing developers to…