- End-to-end lifecycle application from concept through to product
- Transformational speed and scale for product development
- Significantly accelerates complex testing and simulations through AI physics
- Unified ‘perfect fit’ digital engineering platform, embedded with an AI stack, powered exclusively by McLaren data
March 16, 2026: McLaren Automotive is transforming its future product development by embedding true end-to-end agentic AI across the entire engineering lifecycle.
Tailored for McLaren, Rescale’s digital engineering platform, powered by NVIDIA, applies a ‘perfect-fit’ AI stack to bring rapid speed and scale throughout the design and engineering development process.
McLaren can now explore more design space, run complex test and simulations significantly faster, tune every component with greater precision and reduce manual, repetitive tasks through leveraging engineering agents. As well as dramatically accelerating product development, it also protects McLaren’s engineering heritage by creating an environment for teams to focus on high value design and engineering thinking.
Nick Collins, Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Automotive, explained: “This is a genuine strategic transformation for the business. By continuously compounding and optimising our data, our intelligence and our engineering philosophies at unimaginable speed, we can deliver product developments at pace, while protecting the DNA of our company.”
Within the Rescale environment, the platform is trained exclusively on McLaren data and utilises NVIDIA AI infrastructure, AI physics models and agentic engineering libraries. This creates a unified platform approach that connects McLaren CAE, systems engineering and design into a unified AI data fabric which continuously learns and optimises while adhering to the integrity of McLaren’s quality standards and performance characteristics.1
“Our foundational platform allows McLaren to leverage the latest agentic engineering technologies powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure, providing a compounding source of competitive advantage for engineers in critical areas of product development, such as carbon materials, structural dynamics, durability, and ultimately the programmatic scaling of engineering excellence across every discipline, to deliver world-class products faster,” said Joris Poort, Founder and CEO of Rescale.
“The future of automotive engineering is being rewritten by agentic AI and advanced simulation, turning decades of design heritage into a live, generative engine that accelerates every stage of the vehicle lifecycle,” said Tim Costa, Vice President & General Manager, Computational Engineering at NVIDIA. “By integrating Rescale’s unified control layer with NVIDIA’s open models for agentic AI and accelerated physics, McLaren is compressing years of traditional simulation into hours of real-time design exploration.”
Transforming McLaren’s product development lifecycle
AI-accelerated workflows allow McLaren to operate and explore beyond the constraints of traditional physics and computational modelling methods.
- Faster Virtual Simulation: AI-driven physics significantly cuts simulation time with every test feeding new data back into the system to continuously improve surrogate models and AI agents’ understanding of the physical world.
- Rapid Design Exploration: Engineers can evaluate thousands of design iterations in hours, covering multiple physics and engineering domains, fundamentally changing how rapidly an optimal performing design can be achieved.
- Real-Time Performance Prediction: Machine learning models enable instant predictions of manufacturing performance, for example in the production of high-performance carbon fibre structures and components.
- Agentic Engineering: Rescale helps McLaren automate complex repetitive engineering tasks, boosting expert productivity by 3x on infrastructure powered by NVIDIA.
- Knowledge-based Engineering: Rescale’s platform builds ‘engineering knowledge graphs that capture insights from previous work, powering the agentic engineering workflows and accelerating product development decisions.
McLaren is showcasing its application of AI-enhanced engineering on the NVIDIA booth at the NVIDIA GTC 2026, the premier global AI conference taking place from 16-19 March in San Jose, California.
About McLaren Automotive:
McLaren Automotive is a producer of ultra high-performance, lightweight supercars. Launched in 2010, the company is part of McLaren Group Holdings.
Headquartered at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) in Woking, Surrey, England, McLaren Automotive is driven by the challenge of creating the world’s most exhilarating, engaging and benchmark setting vehicles. Leveraging over 60 years of history in authentic, racing performance, McLaren has delivered some of the most spectacular supercars ever made.
The company’s product portfolio of GTS, supercar, Motorsport and Ultimate models are retailed in over 40 markets around the world. Its cars are assembled by hand at the McLaren Production Centre (MPC), based on the same MTC campus that is also the home of McLaren Racing.
About McLaren Group Holdings:
Established in April 2025, McLaren Group Holdings Limited acts as the governance umbrella for CYVN’s portfolio and investments in the UK and guides the vision of its shareholder. CYVN Holdings is an advanced mobility operator and investment vehicle based in Abu Dhabi.
McLaren Group Holdings oversees McLaren Automotive, recently combined with CYVN’s anchor investment in the UK, Forseven. The new Group also includes CYVN’s shareholding in McLaren Racing and the newly formed McLaren Licensing business.
With a reputation for innovation and technological excellence, McLaren is one of the UK’s largest independent companies.
