Overview

• Announced at IAA Mobility in Munich, the initiative concentrates on AI‑supported vehicle development, industrial uses, and high‑performance IT infrastructure.
• A partnership with Dassault Systèmes will build an AI engineering environment to accelerate virtual testing and simulations, designed to cut development cycles to about 36 months.
• Volkswagen forecasts efficiency gains and cost avoidance of up to €4 billion by 2035 from scalable AI deployment across operations.
• More than 1,200 AI applications are already in use across the Group, and the WE & AI upskilling program has reached over 130,000 employees.
• The Digital Production Platform connects 40‑plus sites for AI‑enabled manufacturing improvements, while VW expands a Europe‑based private cloud and explores a Large Industry Model via Catena‑X for secure industrial data sharing.