NVIDIA today introduced the world’s first open, end-to-end, accelerated data science ecosystem, to enable every enterprise to more effectively use data and analytics to grow their business. This groundbreaking program, announced at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, is a major investment in the industrial future of the region.
The new AI factory in Germany will be fed by a massive 10,000 GPUs, which will consist of NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers. This unprecedented ability to compute is going to revolutionize all of manufacturing, from design and prototyping to extreme simulation, factory digital twins and near-general purpose robotics.
“With the support of NVIDIA technology, the BMW Group and other leading manufacturers have built the first industrial socket, marking a new era in advanced manufacturing made possible by AI.” Stuttgart-based industrial leader Daimler, which produces some of the world’s most iconic luxury cars, added that the collaboration will allow it to generate and simulate the entire value chain across a range of industrial problems.
Europe’s premium tier automotive manufacturers including BMW Group, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz and Schaeffler are already using NVIDIA-powered applications to reimagine their entire product lifecycles. This evolution encompasses simulated product design, factory planning, and AI-powered operations and logistics.
In one example, Schaeffler is utilizing NVIDIA’s physical AI stack to plan digital factories and scale AI-based automation across its multiple plants via the Omniverse jackpot. The BMW Group is leveraging digital twins of its production sites to support remote teamwork across the globe and the programming and testing of autonomous robot and vision AI models prior to their deployment on the factory floor.
Leading industrial software makers including Ansys, Cadence and Siemens are also advancing their product portfolios by incorporating NVIDIA’s NVIDIA’s AI-physics technologies, CUDA-X libraries and the Omniverse platform. The partnership will improve efficiency, performance, and sustainability of operations as part of increased digitalisation.
This leading edge German investment will represent a springboard for general adoption of AI across the manufacturing sector in Europe, and will act as a catalyst for the emergence of AI gigafactories and general new industrial paradigm.