Barcelona, 4 November 2025 — Akila, together with K2K and ThinkDeep, will showcase their shared vision for how semantically rich digital twins, video-language models (VLM) and retrieval-augmented AI systems can form an integrated intelligence chain that powers the future of Physical AI in cities and the built environment.
In line with NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI – a physical AI framework that combines simulation, training with VLMs, and deploying video analytics AI agents – the three companies are demonstrating how complementary technologies — spanning contextual intelligence, perception, and interaction, can be combined to create a new generation of city-scale AI systems.
- Akila provides the semantically rich digital twin platform, built on OpenUSD and integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries as its core environment for GPU-intensive simulation and spatial intelligence. Akila serves as the central layer where upstream data is contextualized in a unified operational model, enabling advanced analysis and scenario simulation at building and city scale.
- K2K deploys video analytics AI agents that generate structured, semantic narratives from city-wide visual data built with the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS) and powered by NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an advanced reasoning VLM.
- ThinkDeep enriches the ecosystem with visual data ingestion Agentic AI and Graph RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines using NVIDIA Metropolis – transforming unstructured operational documents and records into structured knowledge that can be accessed interactively through AI assistants.
Together, these capabilities create a context-to-perception-to-interaction chain: from understanding and modeling the physical world through Akila’s digital twin, to extracting real-time intelligence from VLM, to making this knowledge accessible to diverse stakeholders through retrieval-augmented AI systems.
“This collaboration reflects a shared ambition to push the boundaries of how AI understands, simulates, and acts upon the physical world,” said Philippe Obry, Vice President at Akila. “By aligning semantically rich digital twins with advanced VLM and RAG technologies — and by leveraging NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI Omniverse for high-fidelity simulation — we’re laying the groundwork for a new generation of Physical AI capabilities in cities and infrastructure.”
Akila, K2K and ThinkDeep will jointly exhibit at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, from 4–6 November, 2025.
