Exploring Spatial Intelligence: The Future of 3D Interaction

Sanja Fidler, VP of AI Research at NVIDIA, joins the AI Podcast to share her journey from early curiosity to leading the Spatial Intelligence Lab in Toronto. Sanja discusses her path through research and what drew her to the world of AI and computer vision. She explains her team’s work on spatial intelligence—teaching AI to understand and create in 3D—and how this research is helping make content creation and simulation more accessible for everyone. She also discusses how breakthroughs in simulation, 3D modeling, and vision language models are powering the future of robotics and autonomous systems. Learn more at ai-podcast.nvidia.com.