PepsiCo Partners With Siemens and Nvidia on AI Digital Twins | PYMNTS.com

PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Ramon Laguarta framed the initiative as central to the company’s effort to become “future-fit,” embedding AI across operations to respond to consumer demand with greater agility and foresight. He said traditional expansion methods are slow and capital-intensive, and that digital twin-driven planning allows PepsiCo to test and scale changes far more quickly and with less risk.

That operational ambition is underpinned by Siemens’ industrial AI and automation platform. Siemens CEO Roland Busch said the collaboration reflects a broader shift toward AI-native manufacturing, arguing that industrial AI is moving from experimentation to core infrastructure. He said Siemens’ technology stack and domain expertise are enabling companies like PepsiCo to apply AI at production scale rather than in isolated pilots.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang positioned digital twins as the connective layer that makes that shift possible. He said high-fidelity simulation, combined with generative AI and accelerated computing, allows companies with physical assets to reinvent how they design, operate, and…