Artificial intelligence chipmaker NVIDIA is signaling that the next phase of artificial intelligence adoption will move decisively beyond abstract digital reasoning and into models explicitly grounded in the physical world, a shift with direct implications for climate, weather, and hazard risk modeling.
Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, NVIDIA Vice President Kimberly Powell framed this transition as a fundamental change in how AI systems are built, trained, and ultimately deployed in high-stakes environments.
"The ChatGPT moment…has arrived in physical AI," Powell said, describing a new class of models designed to learn and operate according to real-world physical constraints rather than purely statistical relationships.
