NI has announced new enhancements to NI Nigel™ AI, including AI-powered code generation capabilities across its software portfolio. This next phase of Nigel AI introduces prompt-based code generation within NI LabVIEW™ and automated sequence generation in NI TestStand™, enabling engineers to move from design to validation more quickly while maintaining the rigor required for mission-critical applications.

Based on internal benchmarking across representative engineering workflows, these capabilities reduce the time and effort required to develop and deploy test systems by up to 50 percent, accelerating test engineering productivity across industries such as automotive, electronics, aerospace and defense, and semiconductors.

As product complexity increases and validation cycles grow more demanding across industries, engineering teams face mounting pressure to deliver higher throughput without sacrificing quality. NI’s approach embeds context-aware AI directly into the test environments engineers already use, helping streamline development while supporting robust security, alignment with regulatory requirements such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and strong engineering oversight.

This evolution from supportive advisor to intelligent author enables faster workflows while maintaining traceability, governance, and informed human judgment.

“In one year, Nigel has evolved from an AI advisor to an AI author, demonstrating the strength of the NI platform and its ability to integrate the most in-demand technologies quickly for the benefit of our customers. By enabling purpose-built AI to generate code and test sequences within existing workflows, we are accelerating productivity while ensuring engineers remain in control of validation and decision-making.”

With this release, Nigel AI is available across the broader NI LabVIEW+ Suite, bringing AI-driven workflows to NI InstrumentStudio™, NI FlexLogger™, and NI VeriStand™.

This expansion brings context-aware intelligence into interactive measurements, sensor-based data logging, and hardware-in-the-loop test environments across industries such as semiconductors, electronics, aerospace and defense, and automotive. Engineers can now apply AI capabilities consistently across the full test lifecycle, from initial development through system validation and deployment.

Nigel AI is purpose-built for engineering environments and operates directly within structured test workflows. It leverages modular instrumentation, open software systems, configurable workflows, engineering code, and structured data to produce outputs aligned with real-world system constraints. This approach enables more reliable and actionable results while maintaining the standards required for complex, multi-system validation.

NI continues to invest in AI-enabled software as part of its strategy to improve engineering productivity and address growing demand for automation in validation workflows. By integrating AI directly into core engineering tools and delivering measurable efficiency gains, NI is advancing the shift toward more intelligent, software-defined test systems.

With decades of expertise in test and measurement informing Nigel AI’s capabilities, NI is well-positioned to help engineering organizations scale productivity, manage complexity, accelerate innovation, and advance agentic operations through intelligent test automation.

To learn more about NI Nigel AI and its latest code-generation capabilities, contact CN Rood.