NVIDIA details city AI deployments using physical and agentic systems

NVIDIA said cities worldwide are expanding use of physical AI and agentic AI to support public services, mobility planning and infrastructure operations, with projects spanning Spain, the San Francisco Bay Area, Poland, Malaysia, Nigeria, Taiwan and Morocco. The company said the efforts build on initiatives announced at GTC Berlin and rely on a mix of shared computing infrastructure, world models, vision AI and digital-twin tools.

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In a Nov. 3 blog post, NVIDIA said cities generate large volumes of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but that converting those inputs into usable action remains a challenge. The company said physical AI can help with digital twins for infrastructure planning, while agentic AI can power resident services and other workflows, with local governments retaining control over sensitive data processing and use.

NVIDIA said some city workloads can begin on RTX workstations or a small GPU system, rather than requiring large infrastructure purchases. In Spain, the company said 1MillionBot combines open-source ALIA models trained at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with NVIDIA Nemotron and other models in resident-service agents for Madrid Digital, Administració Oberta de Catalunya and more than 150 deployments across Spain. Those systems handle municipal procedures, appointment requests, urban-planning incidents and service inquiries, according to NVIDIA.

For the San Francisco Bay Area, NVIDIA said LiveX is using NVIDIA Cosmos world models and Nemotron open models, along with Omniverse and Metropolis libraries on NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs, to build conversational AI hosts for airports, hospitals, local events and other public spaces. The company said the hosts are designed to understand needs, provide answers and take action, and can be adapted to local languages and service requirements.

In Wrocław, Poland, NVIDIA said K2K is building shared AI infrastructure using accelerated computing, Cosmos world reasoning models and the Metropolis Blueprint for video search and summarization to turn camera streams into actionable intelligence for mobility, safety and event response. In Malaysia, NVIDIA said ITMAX is bundling infrastructure and agentic AI applications into managed city services, including traffic management, and scaling its SamurAI V2 vision agents on RTX PRO 6000 GPUs to support more than 17,000 cameras by 2027. The company also said ITMAX uses Laplace Intelligence's TeraSim traffic simulation platform to test signal timing and reduce peak-hour corridor travel times by up to 26%.

For critical infrastructure, NVIDIA said digital twins can accelerate planning and reduce disruption. It cited Dangote's Lekki refinery in Nigeria, where Honeywell Technologies' Forge Plant Cognition uses Nemotron-powered AI agents to interpret operational data, while a digital twin of the plant and its processes, built with Omniverse libraries, is planned to support simulation and training. NVIDIA said the platform runs on Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerators and is intended to help operators identify bottlenecks and anticipate equipment and process issues.

The company also pointed to Taiwan, where Linker Vision and Dutch architecture firm MVRDV are using NVIDIA Omniverse and Nemotron to build environmental, social and governance agents that can assess urban-planning scenarios. NVIDIA said the tools can simulate 15-year outcomes for an urban forest canopy in 10 minutes, cutting iteration time from two weeks per iteration to less than an hour.

NVIDIA said the broader ecosystem includes Morocco's Tanger Med port, where Cires Technologies is expanding a sovereign AI factory for planned applications in worker safety, congestion analysis, cargo routing and port operations. The company also said Barcelona Supercomputing Center's AI Factory Accelerator Programme gives startups access to sovereign computing, technical support and training across areas including agriculture, medical imaging, knowledge access and speech services.

The company said the city-services push will be presented at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, running Nov. 3-5, where NVIDIA Vice President of EMEA Paolo Guglielmini is scheduled to deliver a keynote followed by a panel moderated by Charbel Aoun, director of smart city and spaces for EMEA at NVIDIA.