The virtual universe just got a little bit bigger.
Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have expanded their long-term partnership to combine Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin technologies with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, open models and accelerated software libraries to build new, unique industry world models that will transform the use of enterprise AI across industries.
The partnership was announced Feb. 3 at 3DEXPERIENCE World, in front of thousands of SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE platform users gathered for our annual user event in Houston. There, Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang explained that the new industry world models will allow millions of engineers to design, simulate and operate faster, more reliably and at a scale never seen before.
“Together with NVIDIA, we are building industry world models that unite Virtual Twins and accelerated computing to help industry design, simulate and operate complex systems in biology, materials science, engineering and manufacturing with confidence,” Daloz said in a press release. “This partnership establishes a new foundation for industrial AI, one that is trustworthy by design and capable of scaling innovation across the generative economy.”
How does the Dassault Systèmes-NVIDIA partnership work?
The partnership involves working at the AI architecture level to define how industrial AI is built, validated and deployed at scale. Rather than using established models that sit within either company, we’re working together to develop new, unique industry world models that would not exist without what each partner brings to the table.
Think of it this way: Dassault Systèmes supplies industry-proven knowledge and know-how, lifecycle continuity and scientific validation through our virtual twin technologies, while NVIDIA contributes accelerated computing and AI technologies that will supercharge these models at scale.
In many ways, the partnership is the latest evolution of the infrastructure we started to build when Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA began to work together more than two decades ago. The announcement elevates the existing collaboration to a shared long-term vision for how industrial AI will be built, validated and deployed at scale, through a unique combination of Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin factories and NVIDIA’s AI libraries and open models for all industries.
“Because AI is foundational to every single industry, it is going to become infrastructure,” Huang said on stage in Houston. “As water is infrastructure, electricity is infrastructure, AI will be infrastructure. … This is the beginning of a new industrialization.”
How does the Dassault Systèmes-NVIDIA partnership work … technically speaking?
With our OUTSCALE brand, Dassault Systemes is deploying AI factories as part of our sustainable and sovereign cloud strategy. These factories will harness the latest NVIDIA AI infrastructure to bring new capabilities for operating AI models within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, while protecting the data, intellectual property and sovereignty of our customers.
NVIDIA is using Dassault Systemes’ model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to design AI factories, starting with the NVIDIA Rubin platform, and integrating it into NVIDIA Omniverse DSX, an open blueprint for developing digital twins to design and operate large-scale AI factories.
What are industry world models?
AI world models are advanced neural networks that understand the dynamics of the real world and use input data to create internal simulations that allow AI to learn and understand before recommending or taking action.
World models are essential as AI is no longer confined to screens and it enters the physical realm of our machines and factories, our cities and even our bodies.
We are leveraging NVIDIA AI and Omniverse libraries to develop unique Dassault Systèmes industry world models that understand the physics, behaviors and consequences of actions, in order to generate optimal designs and make the best decisions.
We capture 40 years of knowledge and know-how of the real industrial world, and embed it into actionable virtual twins through world models.
It’s computing into understanding, Daloz explained, and scaling industrial AI by structuring knowledge and protecting IP.
Which industries can benefit from world models?
Industry world models represent a new foundation for how all industries design, simulate and operate complex systems. The Dassault Systèmes-NVIDIA partnership in particular targets sectors in which scientific validation, trust and scale are essential. At 3DEXPERIENCE World, Daloz and Huang shared several examples, including:
- Advancing biology and materials research
- AI-driven design and engineering
- Virtual Twins of factories
- Virtual companions that supercharge 3DEXPERIENCE platform users
Testimonials from the Bel Group, OMRON, Lucid Motors and the National Institute for Aviation Research spoke to the transformative impact of the deepening Dassault Systèmes-NVIDIA partnership.
How will the partnership impact Dassault Systèmes’ new virtual companions?
This news comes one day after Dassault Systèmes announced three new virtual companions will be available in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
- AURA, who orchestrates knowledge and context
- LEO, who brings engineering reasoning
- MARIE, who brings scientific disciplines
These virtual companions will be powered by combining NVIDIA Nemotron open models with Dassault Systèmes’ industry world models to tap into deep industrial context and deliver trusted, actionable intelligence with industrial-scale efficiency.
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Virtual companions are AI-driven capabilities that assist professionals by leveraging validated world models and industrial knowledge. They support a new way of working, by augmenting human expertise rather than replacing it and enabling more informed and reliable decision-making.
“Knowledge” and “know-how” are terms Dassault Systèmes uses to describe a company’s corporate knowledge and ability to apply it. While knowledge is static and describes the theoretical understanding of a subject, know-how is dynamic and describes the discipline of putting knowledge into action.
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Patrick BallPatrick is a Senior Communications Manager on the Corporate Publishing team here at Dassault Systèmes. An experienced journalist, marketer, speechwriter and storyteller, Patrick's words have appeared on pages and stages around the world.