AI computing technology company Nvidia said on Jan. 9 that it will expand its strategic partnership with Siemens at CES 2026, an IT and consumer electronics exhibition in Las Vegas, to accelerate AI adoption in real industrial sites.

The companies plan to jointly develop industrial AI and physical AI solutions to bring AI-driven innovation to all industries and workflows and speed up interoperability.

To support development, Nvidia will provide AI infrastructure, simulation libraries, models, frameworks and blueprints. Siemens plans to deploy hundreds of industrial AI experts along with hardware and software.

The companies plan to work together to build AI-accelerated industrial solutions across the entire product and production lifecycle. They aim to use Siemens Electronics Factory in Erlangen, Germany, as the first model in 2026 and build the world’s first fully AI-based adaptive manufacturing site.

The companies said an AI-based adaptive manufacturing environment combines software-defined automation, an "AI Brain" powered by industrial operations software, Nvidia Omniverse libraries and Nvidia AI infrastructure. The factory continuously analyses digital twins, virtually tests improvements and can turn verified insights into changes in on-site operations.

This enables faster and more reliable decision-making from design to deployment, raising productivity while reducing commissioning time and risk. The companies plan to expand these capabilities to major industries and said several customers including Foxconn, HD Hyundai, KION Group and PepsiCo are already evaluating some functions.

With the expanded partnership, Siemens plans to complete GPU acceleration across its full simulation portfolio. It also plans to expand support for Nvidia CUDA-X libraries and AI physics models so customers can run larger, more accurate simulations faster. Based on this, the companies’ strategy is to advance toward generative simulation by using Nvidia PhysicsNeMo and open models to build autonomous digital twins that provide real-time engineering design and autonomous optimisation.

Roland Busch, chairman and CEO of Siemens AG, said, "Together, we are building an industrial AI operating system. This is to scale AI and create tangible impact in the real world by redefining how the physical world is designed, built and operated. By combining Nvidia’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI platforms with Siemens hardware, software, industrial AI and data, we will support customers so they can develop products faster with the most comprehensive digital twins, adjust production in real time and accelerate technology from chips to AI factories."

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said, "Generative AI and accelerated computing are igniting a new industrial revolution, transforming digital twins from passive simulations into active intelligence for the physical world. The partnership with Siemens fuses industrial software with Nvidia’s full-stack AI platform to narrow the gap between ideas and reality. This will allow industry to simulate complex systems in software and then seamlessly automate and operate them in the physical world."