NVIDIA Advances Autonomous Networks With Agentic AI Blueprints and Telco Reasoning Models



Autonomous networks — intelligent, self-managing telecommunications operations — are moving from a future vision to a current priority for telecom operators. In the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Telecommunications report, network automation emerged as the top AI use case for investment and return on investment.

Automation is different from autonomy. Beyond executing predefined workflows, autonomous networks must understand operator intent, reason over tradeoffs and decide what actions to take. Reasoning models and AI agents fine-tuned on telecom data are key to enabling this shift.

For networks to become autonomous, there’s a need for an end-to-end agentic system that includes key components like telco network models and AI agents that talk to each other and use network simulation tools to validate actions.

Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, NVIDIA unveiled an open NVIDIA Nemotron-based large telco model (LTM), a comprehensive guide for building reasoning agents for network operations, and new NVIDIA Blueprints for energy saving and network configuration with multi-agent orchestration to help operators advance toward autonomy.

And as part of GSMA’s new Open Telco AI initiative — launching tomorrow — NVIDIA is releasing the new open source LTM, implementation guide and agentic AI blueprints as open resources through GSMA, an organization for the mobile communications industry.

Open Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model Brings Reasoning to Telecom 

For telcos to successfully operationalize generative and agentic AI across their operations, AI models must have the ability to understand the language of telecom and reason through complex workflows. NVIDIA has collaborated with AdaptKey AI to release a new open source, 30-billion-parameter NVIDIA Nemotron LTM that operators around the world can use to build autonomous networks.

Built on the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family of foundation models and fine-tuned by AdaptKey AI using open telecom datasets including industry standards and synthetic logs, the LTM is optimized to understand telecom industry terminology and reason through workflows such as fault isolation, remediation planning and change validation.

As an open model, the Nemotron LTM gives telcos full transparency into how it was trained and what data was used, enabling secure and fast on‑premises deployment within their networks, where they can build and run agents directly. It also lets telcos safely adapt and extend telecom‑tuned reasoning with their own network and operational data, so they can move toward autonomous operations without sacrificing control over data or security.

Teaching AI Agents to Reason Like Network Engineers

NVIDIA and Tech Mahindra have published an open source guide that shows telecom operators how to fine-tune domain-specific reasoning models and build agents that can safely execute network operations center (NOC) workflows.

The guide outlines a framework for teaching models to reason like NOC engineers: focus on high‑impact, high‑frequency incident categories, translate expert resolutions into step‑by‑step procedures and turn those into structured reasoning traces that capture each action, tool call, outcome and decision. These traces become the “thinking examples” the model learns from, so it understands not just what to do, but why a particular sequence of checks and fixes is safe and effective.

Using the NVIDIA NeMo-Skills pipeline, operators can fine-tune a reasoning model on these traces, laying the foundation for telco-specialized AI agents that can reason and solve problems like a network engineer.

Maximizing Energy Efficiency With New Intent-Driven Energy Saving Blueprint

Autonomous networks rely on closed‑loop operation: models that understand the network, agents that act on intent and simulation that feeds results back into the system to validate and refine decisions. The new NVIDIA Blueprint for intent-driven RAN energy efficiency brings these pieces together, helping operators systematically reduce power consumption in 5G radio access networks (RAN) while maintaining quality of service.

The blueprint integrates network test and measurement leader VIAVI’s TeraVM AI RAN Scenario Generator (AI RSG) platform to generate synthetic network data — including cell utilization, user throughput and other traffic patterns — and convert it into a simple, queryable format.

An energy planning agent then reasons over the synthetic data to generate energy-saving policies that can be simulated in AI RSG, allowing operators to safely validate energy-saving policies in a closed loop to meet their intent without changing live configurations or impacting subscribers.

Telcos Put the NVIDIA Blueprint for Network Configuration to Work

The NVIDIA Blueprint for telco network configuration is being adopted by operators around the world.

Cassava Technologies is using the blueprint to build Cassava Autonomous Network, an agentic platform designed to optimize Africa’s diverse, multi-vendor mobile network environment. The platform implements three agents: one to monitor the network and recommend configuration changes, one to apply changes with documentation and governance, and one to assess the impact of changes made and safely roll them back if they have unintended effects.

NTT DATA is implementing the blueprint to bring intelligence to traffic regulation, helping the network manage surges when users reconnect after an outage, and is deploying it with a tier 1 operator in Japan.

An AI agent looks at real-time demand across the network and then decides when and how to admit new users on specific cells. As conditions stabilize, the agent adapts its decisions, turning what used to be manual configurations into a data-driven optimization cycle for more resilient mobile networks.

Evolving Network Configuration With Multi-Agent Orchestration

To help telcos design, observe and optimize complex agentic workflows across the RAN, NVIDIA and BubbleRAN are enhancing the NVIDIA Blueprint for telco network configuration with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit (NAT) and BubbleRAN Agentic Toolkit (BAT), complementary frameworks for multi-agent orchestration.

BubbleRAN is integrating NAT and BAT into its Opti-Sphere platform to manage network monitoring, configuration and validation agents more flexibly across containers and workloads, and connect them to tools that report network metrics and traffic status so they can continuously propose and validate configuration changes.

Telenor Group will be the first telco to adopt the blueprint with BubbleRAN to enhance its 5G network for Telenor Maritime, the group’s global connectivity provider at sea.

Learn more about the latest advancements in agentic AI for telecommunications at Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona from March 2-5. 

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Survey Reveals AI Is Delivering Clear Return on Investment in Healthcare


AI is accelerating every aspect of healthcare — from radiology and drug discovery to medical device manufacturing and new treatment methods enabled by digital twins of the human body.

NVIDIA’s second annual “State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences” survey report reveals how the industry is moving from AI experimentation to execution, reaping return on investment (ROI) on core applications like medical imaging and drug discovery.

The industry is also embracing open source software and AI models to tackle specific use cases, as well as exploring using agentic AI to speed knowledge retrieval and research paper analysis.

Highlights from this year’s report include:

  • 70% of respondents said their organizations are actively using AI, up from 63% in 2024.
  • 69% said they’re using generative AI and large language models, up from 54%.
  • 82% said open source software and models are moderately to extremely important to their organizations’ AI strategy.
  • 47% said they’re using or assessing agentic AI.
  • 85% of executives said AI is helping increase revenue, and 80% said it’s helping reduce costs.

“Over the next 12-18 months, the most visible and scalable impact of AI will come from logistics and administrative streamlining,” said John Nosta, president of NostaLab, a healthcare think tank. “That’s where adoption curves are already steep — scheduling, documentation, coding, utilization management and care coordination.”

Read more below on some of the report’s key findings.

AI Adoption Ramps Up Across Healthcare and Life Sciences

AI adoption is up across every industry segment in this year’s survey — spanning digital healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, payers and providers, and medical technology and tools — with digital healthcare leading at 78%, followed by medical technology at 74%.

The top industry workload was generative AI and large language models, according to 69% of respondents. AI for data analytics and data science was the second most-used workload, followed by predictive analytics. New to the survey, agentic AI ranked fourth, with 47% of respondents saying they’re using or assessing AI agents.

“Scaling generative AI in healthcare starts with focusing on real clinical and operational problems, rather than the technology itself,” said Dr. Annabelle Painter, clinical AI strategy lead at Visiba U.K. “The organizations seeing impact are those that embed AI into existing workflows instead of layering AI on top as a separate tool.”

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are deploying these AI workloads across a variety of use cases, each specific to their primary functions. For example, 61% of respondents from medical technology said they’re using AI for medical imaging, such as radiologists using it to work more quickly and efficiently, while 57% from pharmaceutical and biotechnology said drug discovery is being driven by AI.

For the entire industry, the top AI use cases were clinical decision support (such as radiologists highlighting areas of concern on a scan), medical imaging and workflow optimization.

AI Budgets to Increase With Strong ROI

AI is helping healthcare and life sciences organizations become even better at their core competencies — underscoring strong ROI.

In addition to increasing annual revenue and reducing annual costs, AI is boosting back-office productivity through workflow optimization and is scaling across other key business operations such as patient interaction and administrative tasks.

For example, 57% of respondents from the medical technology segment reported seeing ROI from deploying AI for medical imaging. Nearly half (46%) of pharmaceutical and biotechnology respondents said AI for drug discovery and development was among their top ROI use cases.

The top ROI use case for digital healthcare providers was virtual health assistants and chatbots, according to 37%, while 39% of respondents from payers and providers (which include hospitals, primary care providers and insurance companies) cited administrative tasks and workflow optimization as their top area of ROI.

As a result of AI’s positive impact, 85% of respondents said their AI budgets would increase this year, with another 12% saying budgets would stay the same. For almost half of respondents (46%), AI spending will increase significantly, by more than 10%.

“Healthcare organizations that successfully integrate AI are those that explicitly fund and prioritize evaluation as a core operational function, ensuring AI delivers measurable improvements in safety, quality and patient care over time,” said Painter.

Using Open Source for Domain-Specific AI Deployment

Leaning into open source models and software allows enterprises to build domain-specific applications, lending them greater flexibility and efficiency while boosting business returns.

The healthcare industry has embraced open source, with 82% of survey respondents stating it’s moderately to extremely important to their AI strategy.

“Open models will shape the intellectual field,” said Nosta. “They are essential for exploration and for keeping the field honest. But in clinical environments where safety, liability and accountability are nonnegotiable, proprietary systems will remain necessary for validation, integration and trust. The key insight here is that discovery will be open, and deployment will demand stewardship.”

Download the “State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences: 2026 Trends” report for in-depth results and insights.

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Survey Reveals AI Advances in Telecom: Networks and Automation in Driver’s Seat as Return on Investment Climbs


AI is accelerating the telecommunications industry’s transformation, becoming the backbone of autonomous networks and AI-native wireless infrastructure. At the same time, the technology is unlocking new business and revenue opportunities, as telecom operators accelerate AI adoption across consumers, enterprises and nations.

NVIDIA’s fourth annual “State of AI in Telecommunications” survey report unpacks these trends, underscoring strong AI adoption, impact and investment in the industry.

Highlights from the report include:

  • 90% said AI is helping increase annual revenue and drive down costs.
  • 77% said they expect to see AI-native networks launch before the deployment of 6G.
  • 65% of telecom operators said network automation is being driven by AI.
  • 60% said their organization is using or assessing generative AI, up from 49% in 2024.
  • 89% said open source models and software are important to their AI strategy.
  • 89% of telcos plan to boost AI spending in 2026, up from 65% a year ago.

“There is a seismic shift underway in the telecom industry driven by AI,” said Sebastian Barros, managing director of Circles, a Singapore-based telecommunications provider. “Communication service providers are converging on a new realization. Their role in society extends beyond moving bits across networks toward moving intelligence across local and regulated infrastructure. That transition defines the move from telco to ‘AICO’ — AI infrastructure companies operating at network proximity, not application vendors riding on top.”

Here are some more key findings from the report.

Tangible Revenue Impact and Return on Investment

The telecommunications industry is seeing a definitive revenue impact from the use of AI. Overall, about nine out of 10 respondents said AI is helping to increase revenue and reduce costs. Telecommunications operators, which represent about a quarter of the 1,000 responses in the survey, are also seeing the benefit, with 90% saying AI has had a positive impact on revenue and costs.

The top AI use cases cited for return on investment (ROI) were AI for autonomous networks (50%), followed by improved customer service (41%) and internal process optimization (33%).

“Autonomous networks deliver immediate ROI by eliminating human effort from repetitive, reactive workflows,” said Barros. “The fastest impact areas are energy management, fault prediction, configuration drift correction and capacity planning.”

This strong impact on revenue and ROI is leading telecommunications companies to increase their AI budgets in 2026. Overall, 89% of respondents said their AI budget will increase in the next 12 months, up from 65% in last year’s survey, with 35% saying their budgets would increase more than 10% from this year.

Focus on AI-Native Networks and Autonomous Operations

Network automation has overtaken customer experience as the leading use case for investment, deployment and ROI impact. This signals a bold step toward autonomous networks — AI-driven, self-managing systems that can self-configure, self-heal and self-optimize with minimal human intervention. Eighty-eight percent of organizations report being between levels 1-3 of autonomy, as defined by the TM Forum, and the use of generative AI and agentic AI is expected to accelerate the shift to level 5 autonomous networks.

“Autonomous networks are delivering return on investment faster than any other AI use case because they directly reduce outages, energy consumption and manual intervention,” said Chetan Sharma, CEO of Chetan Sharma Consulting. “Agentic AI accelerates this by coordinating decisions across domains in real time.”

A surge in edge computing investment is reshaping telecom network architectures, bringing AI inferencing closer to users through a distributed computing infrastructure. Telcos are stepping up investments in AI-native RAN and 6G — signaling a major industry intercept ahead of the traditional 6G deployment cycle, with 77% of respondents anticipating a much faster time to deployment of this new AI-native wireless network architecture.

The top drivers of investment are using AI to enhance spectral efficiency, improving the performance of the radio access network supporting edge AI applications and accelerating the research and development of 6G.

A Universal Boost in Productivity 

AI in telecommunications is advancing autonomous networks and business opportunities as well as improving internal operations. Nearly every respondent in the survey said AI is boosting employee productivity, with 26% citing major to significant improvements to their ability to complete more tasks with higher quality in less time.

The productivity gains are coming from generative and agentic AI solutions deployed across operations, from the back office to networks.

“Generative AI delivered fast productivity gains, but agentic AI is where telecoms begin to see structural ROI,” Sharma said. “Autonomous agents can act across networks, IT and customer journeys, turning insights into decisions without human delay.”

Download the “State of AI in Telecommunications 2026 Trends” report for in-depth results and insights.

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Nemotron Labs: How AI Agents Are Turning Documents Into Real-Time Business Intelligence


Editor’s note: This post is part of the Nemotron Labs blog series, which explores how the latest open models, datasets and training techniques help businesses build specialized AI systems and applications on NVIDIA platforms. Each post highlights practical ways to use an open stack to deliver value in production — from transparent research copilots to scalable AI agents.

Businesses today face the challenge of uncovering valuable insights buried within a wide variety of documents — including reports, presentations, PDFs, web pages and spreadsheets.

Often, teams piece together insights by manually reviewing files, copying data into spreadsheets, building dashboards and using basic search or template-based optical character recognition (OCR) tools that often miss important details in complex media.

Intelligent document processing is an AI-powered workflow that automatically reads, understands and extracts insights from documents. It interprets rich formats inside those documents — including tables, charts, images and text — using AI agents and techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to turn the multimodal content into insights that other multi-agent systems and people can easily use.

With NVIDIA Nemotron open models and GPU-accelerated libraries, organizations can build AI-powered document intelligence systems for research, financial services, legal workflows and more.

These open models, datasets and training recipes have powered strong results on leaderboards such as MTEB, MMTEB and ViDoRe V3, benchmarks for evaluating multilingual and multimodal retrieval models. Teams can choose from among the best models for tasks like search and question answering.

How Document Processing Streamlines Business Intelligence

Document intelligence systems that can pull meaning from complex layouts, scale to huge file libraries and show exactly where an answer came from are incredibly useful in high-stakes environments. These systems:

  • Understand rich document content, moving beyond simple text scraping to capture information from charts, tables, figures and mixed-language pages and treating documents as a human would by recognizing structure, relationships and context​​.
  • Handle large quantities of shifting data, ingesting and processing massive collections of documents in parallel, and keeping knowledge bases continuously up to date.​​
  • Find exactly what users need, helping AI agents pinpoint the most relevant passages, tables or paragraphs to a query so they can respond with precision and accuracy.​​
  • Show the evidence behind answers by providing citations to specific pages or charts so teams can gain transparency and auditability, which is critical in regulated industries.​​

The result is a shift from static document archives to living knowledge systems that directly power business intelligence, customer experiences and operational workflows.

Document Intelligence at Work

Intelligent document processing systems built on NVIDIA Nemotron RAG models, Nemotron Parse and accelerated computing are already reshaping how organizations across industries gain insights from their documents.​​

Justt: AI-Native Chargeback Management and Dispute Optimization

In financial services, payment disputes create significant revenue loss and operational complexity for merchants, largely because the evidence needed to handle them lives in unstructured formats. Transaction logs, customer communications and policy documents are often fragmented across systems and difficult to process at scale, making dispute handling slow, manual and costly.

Justt.ai provides an AI-driven platform that automates the full chargeback lifecycle at scale. The platform connects directly to payment service providers and merchant data sources to ingest transaction data, customer interactions and policies, then automatically assembles dispute-specific evidence that aligns with card network and issuer requirements.

The platform’s AI-powered dispute optimization, powered by Nemotron Parse, applies predictive analytics to determine which chargebacks to fight or accept, and how to optimize each response for maximum net recovery. Leading hospitality operators like HEI Hotels & Resorts use the platform to automate dispute handling across their properties, recapturing revenue while maintaining guest relationships.

By pairing document-centric intelligence with decision automation, merchants can recapture a significant portion of revenue lost to illegitimate chargebacks while reducing manual review effort.​

Read about how Justt’s chargeback management tool autonomously processes financial data to handle disputes for merchants.

Docusign: Scaling Agreement Intelligence

Docusign is the global leader in Intelligent Agreement Management, handling millions of transactions every day for more than 1.8 million customers and over 1 billion users.

Agreements are the foundation of every business, but the critical information they contain are often buried inside pages of documents. To surface the information, Docusign needed high-fidelity extraction of tables, text and metadata from complex documents like PDFs so organizations could understand and act on obligations, risks and opportunities faster.

Docusign is evaluating Nemotron Parse for deeper contract understanding at scale. Running on NVIDIA GPUs, the model combines advanced AI with layout detection and OCR. The system can reliably interpret complex tables and reconstruct tables with required information. This reduces the need for manual corrections and helps ensure that even the most complex contracts are processed with the speed and accuracy their customers expect.

With this foundation, Docusign will transform agreement repositories into structured data that powers contract search, analysis and AI-driven workflows — turning agreements into business assets that help organizations and their teams improve visibility, reduce risk and make faster decisions.

Edison Scientific: Research Across Massive Literature Scale

Edison Scientific’s Kosmos AI Scientist helps researchers navigate complex scientific landscapes to synthesize literature, identify connections and surface evidence.​

Edison needed a way to rapidly and accurately extract structured information from large volumes of PDFs, including equations, tables and figures that traditional information parsing methods often mishandle.​

By integrating the NVIDIA Nemotron Parse model into its PaperQA pipeline, Edison can decompose research papers, index key concepts and ground responses in specific passages, improving both throughput and answer quality for scientists.​​ This approach turns a sprawling research corpus into an interactive, queryable knowledge engine that accelerates hypothesis generation and literature review.​

The high efficiency of Nemotron Parse enables cost-efficient serving at scale, allowing Edison’s team to unlock the whole multimodal pipeline.

Designing an Intelligent Document Processing Application With NVIDIA Technologies

A robust, domain-specific document intelligence pipeline requires technologies that can handle data extraction, embedding and reranking, while keeping the data secure and compliant with regulations.​​

  • Extraction: Nemotron extraction and OCR models rapidly ingest multimodal PDFs, text, tables, graphs and images to convert them into structured, machine-readable content while preserving layout and semantics.
  • Embedding: Nemotron embedding models convert passages, entities and visual elements into vector representations tuned for document retrieval, enabling semantically accurate search.​​
  • Reranking: Nemotron reranking models evaluate candidate passages to ensure the most relevant content is surfaced as context for large language models (LLMs), improving answer fidelity and reducing hallucinations.​​
  • Parsing: Nemotron Parse models decipher document semantics to extract text and tables with precise spatial grounding and correct reading flow. Overcoming layout variability, they turn unstructured documents into actionable data that enhances the accuracy of LLMs and agentic workflows.

These capabilities are packaged as NVIDIA NIM microservices and foundation models that run efficiently on NVIDIA GPUs, allowing teams to scale from proof of concept to production while keeping sensitive data within their chosen cloud or data center environment.

The most effective AI systems use a mix of frontier models and open source models like NVIDIA Nemotron, with an LLM router analyzing each task and automatically selecting the model best suited for it. This approach keeps performance strong while managing computing costs and improving efficiency.

Get Started With NVIDIA Nemotron

Access a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a document processing pipeline with RAG capabilities. Explore how Nemotron RAG can power specialized agents tailored for different industries.​

Plus, experiment with Nemotron RAG models and the NVIDIA NeMo Retriever open library, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, as well as Nemotron Parse on Hugging Face.

Join the community of developers building with the NVIDIA Blueprint for Enterprise RAG — trusted by a dozen industry-leading AI Data Platform providers and available now on build.nvidia.com, GitHub and the NGC catalog.

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Everything Will Be Represented in a Virtual Twin, Jensen Huang Says at 3DEXPERIENCE World



At 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz laid out a blueprint for industrial AI rooted in physics-based “world models” — systems designed to simulate products, factories and even biological systems before they’re built.

“Artificial intelligence will be infrastructure,”  like water, electricity, and the internet Huang told the crowd, playfully referring to the engineering-heavy audience as “Solid Workers,” a nod to Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks platform.

The announcement continues a collaboration spanning more than a quarter century between NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes.

“This is the largest collaboration our two companies have ever had in over a quarter century,” Huang said. “We’re going to fuse these technologies so engineers can work at a scale that’s 100 times, 1,000 times — and eventually a million times greater than before.”

The new partnership brings NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI libraries together with Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin platforms to move more engineering work into real-time digital workflows, powered by AI companions that help teams explore, validate, prototype and iterate faster.

Huang framed the shift as a reinvention of the computing stack: moving from hand-specified, structured digital designs to systems that can generate, simulate and optimize in software — at industrial scale.

From Digital Models to Industry World Models

Virtual twins are not applications, “they are knowledge factories,” Daloz said.

The partnership aims to establish industry world models — science-validated AI systems grounded in physics that can serve as mission-critical platforms across biology, materials science, engineering and manufacturing.

In Daloz’s framing, the value moves upstream: virtual twins become the place where knowledge is created, tested, and trusted — before anything is built in the physical world.

Dassault Systèmes, whose 3DEXPERIENCE platform serves more than 45 million users and 400,000 customers globally, has long been a leader in virtual twin technology — digital replicas that let engineers simulate products and processes before building them physically.

The collaboration brings together accelerated computing, AI and digital twin technologies so engineers can design not only geometry, but behavior — and explore radically larger design spaces earlier in development.

Together, the companies outlined how this shared architecture will show up across science, engineering and manufacturing workflows:

  • Advancing Biology and Materials Research​: The NVIDIA BioNeMo platform and BIOVIA science-validated world models accelerate the discovery of new molecules and next-generation materials.
  • AI-Driven Design and Engineering: SIMULIA AI-based Virtual Twin Physics Behavior leveraging NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and AI physics libraries empowers designers and engineers to accurately and instantly predict outcomes.
  • Virtual Twins for Every Factory: NVIDIA Omniverse physical AI libraries integrated into the DELMIA Virtual Twin enable autonomous, software-defined production systems.
  • Virtual Companions Supercharge Dassault Systèmes’ Users: The 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform, combining NVIDIA AI technologies and NVIDIA Nemotron open models with Dassault Systèmes’ Industry World Models, powers Virtual Companions to tap into deep industrial context, delivering trusted, actionable intelligence.

Huang said that in domains like biology and materials, the frontier is learning the underlying “language” of complex systems and then generating new options that can be evaluated and validated in simulation.

Designing and Operating the Factory in Software

A central theme of the discussion was how factories themselves are changing — from static physical assets to living systems that are designed, simulated and operated as virtual twins.

As part of the partnership, Dassault Systèmes is deploying NVIDIA-powered AI factories on three continents through its OUTSCALE sovereign cloud, enabling customers to run AI workloads while maintaining data residency and security requirements.

Both executives emphasized that the goal isn’t to replace engineers — it’s to amplify them. As AI agent companions take on more exploratory and repetitive tasks, designers and engineers gain leverage and creativity, not redundancy.

AI Companions That Expand Human Creativity

Every designer will have a “team of companions,” Huang said — a shift he described as fundamentally positive for engineers, software platforms and the broader ecosystem built on them.

For the tens of millions of engineers who use Dassault Systèmes tools to design everything from aircraft to consumer packaged goods, the shift isn’t about replacing human creativity — it’s about expanding it.

“Success is not about automation,” Daloz said. “[Engineers] don’t want to automate the past — they want to invent the future.”

Looking ahead, Daloz framed the partnership as about more than performance gains – it’s an effort to open new possibilities, help companies eliminate bad choices before they become expensive mistakes, and create entirely new categories of products.

“Virtual twins and the 3D Universes are not applications,” Daloz said. “They are knowledge factories.”

The fireside conversation between Huang and Daloz was broadcast live from 3DEXPERIENCE World.

Looking to the Future of Agentic AI with AutoCAD and Autodesk Assistant | AutoCAD Blog


Without question, AI is a huge priority across Design and Make industries. According to the recently released State of Design & Make: Digital Transformation Pulse report, Design and Make organizations are overwhelmingly positive about the future of AI in their industry, with 74% saying it will have a positive impact on innovation and 92% currently using at least one AI tool.

Autodesk is helping to provide the solutions required to take advantage of new AI-enabled workflows. Autodesk AI is embedded throughout Autodesk products with new workflows being added regularly. Integrating with Autodesk products, including AutoCAD (and eventually Autodesk model context protocol [MCP] servers), it provides a unified and collaborative experience with continuous access to critical data.  

Let’s take a look at how you can use Autodesk AI in AutoCAD today through Autodesk Assistant and where it’s going in the future. 

How Autodesk Assistant Enhances AutoCAD Today

Today, Autodesk Assistant is your partner in doing more with AutoCAD. It can help with design tasks, help you learn about new features, and troubleshoot design challenges without leaving the workspace. You also can initiate a discussion with a support agent or submit a support case from within Autodesk Assistant.

Looking to the Future of Agentic AI and AutoCAD

In the future, Autodesk Assistant will be the unified entry point for Autodesk products, simplifying cross-product workflows with a context-aware intelligent assistant that offers access through one interface. Autodesk Assistant will grow with new capabilities as Autodesk develops trusted MCP services, CAD and physics-informed foundation models, and other Autodesk AI capabilities, exposing discrete functionalities embedded in Autodesk’s standalone software products.

At AU 2025, attendees got a preview of this functionality during the AECO keynote. In AutoCAD, you’ll be able to analyze the submission against your drawing standards and get results right away, highlighting violations in layers, lines, text, and dimensions. No more tedious review for hours. You can have intelligent analysis in seconds. See the demo for yourself:

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