BMW is building a digital twin of a factory that will open for real in 2025.

BMW Group starts global rollout of Nvidia Omniverse for factory digital twins

BMW Group has started the global rollout of its Nvidia Omniverse platform as it designs the digital version of a factory that will open for real in 2025.

The carmaker will bring the power of industrial AI to its entire production network as part of its digital transformation, the companies said during a keynote at the Nvidia GTC 2023 spring event.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.