NVIDIA Corporation said it is building the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. Accordingly, the German-based AI factory will feature 10,000 GPUs, including through NVIDIA DGX™ B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers.

Most importantly, this will enable Europe’s industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics.

In his keynote speech at GTC Paris 2025, which runs alongside Europe’s largest tech event VivaTech, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said without a doubt AI is an industry and will be part of an intelligence infrastructure that is necessary for every country and every society.

“In the era of AI, every manufacturer needs two factories: one for making things, and one for creating the intelligence that powers them,” said Huang. “By building Europe’s first industrial AI infrastructure, we’re enabling the region’s leading industrial companies to advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing.”

First Industrial AI Cloud for Manufacturers

NVIDIA is helping build an AI factory in Germany that will support industrial AI workloads for European manufacturers. Aside from featuring 10,000 GPUs, the industrial AI will run NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA RTX and NVIDIA Omniverse-accelerated workloads from leading software providers such as Siemens, Ansys, Cadence and Rescale.

The AI factory will be built following the framework highlighted in the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design and operations. As part of this blueprint, Cadence’s Reality Digital Twin Platform will be used to simulate and optimize the entire AI factory in a physically accurate virtual environment, enabling the engineering teams to build a smarter, more reliable facility.

This investment will serve as a launchpad to accelerate AI development and adoption for European manufacturers in anticipation of AI gigafactories.

Industrial Software Leaders Accelerate Products With NVIDIA Technologies

In addition, Huang also announced that European manufacturers including BMW Group, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz and Schaeffler are transforming their end-to-end product lifecycles. Particularly, from simulated product design and factory planning to AI-driven operations and logistics, by running NVIDIA-accelerated applications from software leaders such as Ansys, Cadence and Siemens.

Moreover, leading independent software vendors, such as Ansys, Cadence and Siemens, accelerating their product portfolios using NVIDIA AI-physics technologies, NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems and the NVIDIA Omniverse platform.

Specifically, Siemens and NVIDIA announced an expansion of their partnership to accelerate the next era of industrial AI and digitalization. For one, Maserati, is tapping into Siemens solutions powered by Omniverse application programming interfaces to interactively visualize airflow over car bodies and improve its manufacturing process.

Ansys announced it is integrating Omniverse into Ansys Fluent, a high-fidelity fluid simulation software and into Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors to improve scene building and visualization for autonomous vehicle simulations. Volvo Cars ran Ansys Fluent on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, accelerating fluid simulations by 2.5x for its EX90 electric vehicle. Using just eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Ansys accelerated solver speed by 2.5x compared with running the same simulation on 2,016 CPU cores and cost-equivalent hardware.

Cadence recently announced that it is transforming AI-accelerated simulation for multiple markets, including industrial AI, with its new Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer. Millennium is combined with industry-leading design software from Cadence and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries with the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, including NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, to accelerate silicon, system and drug design.

Toulouse, France-based Ascendance is using Cadence Fidelity computational fluid dynamics software and NVIDIA GPUs to design the future of aviation, achieving a 20x reduction in simulation runtimes.

Reinventing End-to-End Manufacturing

German high precision components manufacturer Schaeffler is using AI factories and adopting NVIDIA’s physical AI stack for digital factory planning. Accordingly, it trains humanlike robotic skills and scaling AI-powered automation across its 100+ manufacturing plants.

By tapping into the Omniverse ecosystem using applications from Siemens, Schaeffler is creating digital twins of its facilities to enable efficient, resilient and safe production across the entire value chain.

Meanwhile, BMW Group is building digital twins of its production facilities, including through the use of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. These plant-scale digital twins let BMW global production planning teams collaborate in real time and optimize the layout and design of complex manufacturing systems. Moreover, they can develop autonomous robot and vision AI applications prior to real-world deployment.

Mercedes-Benz is using Omniverse to design and optimize factory assembly lines virtually, reducing downtime and improving efficiency across its factories worldwide.

12 June 2025