Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA Partner to Build an Industrial AI Platform Powering Virtual Twins
Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA Partner to Build an Industrial AI Platform Powering Virtual Twins
Synopsis
- The partnership establishes a shared industrial AI architecture combining Virtual Twins with accelerated AI infrastructure.
- Science-validated world models position industrial AI as a system of record across multiple industries.
- The collaboration expands long-term value creation through agentic virtual companions embedded in industrial workflows.
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Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have entered a long-term strategic partnership to create a shared industrial artificial intelligence architecture designed for mission-critical use across industries. The collaboration brings together Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin technologies with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, open models, and accelerated software libraries to establish science-validated industry world models that extend beyond point solutions.
According to the companies, the combined architecture is intended to ground artificial intelligence in physics, science, and validated industrial knowledge, enabling new ways of working through skilled virtual companions operating on Dassault Systèmes’ agentic 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The approach positions industrial AI as a reliable system of record capable of supporting complex decision-making across biology, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing.
“We are entering an era where artificial intelligence does not just predict or generate, but understands the real world. When AI is grounded in science, physics and validated industrial knowledge, it becomes a force multiplier for human ingenuity,” said Pascal Daloz, Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Systèmes. “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. This partnership establishes a new foundation for industrial AI, one that is trustworthy by design and capable of scaling innovation across the generative economy.”
“Physical AI is the next frontier of artificial intelligence, grounded in the laws of the physical world,” said Jensen Huang, founder and Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA. “Together with Dassault Systèmes, we’re uniting decades of industrial leadership with NVIDIA’s AI and Omniverse platforms to transform how millions of researchers, designers and engineers build the world’s largest industries.”
Accelerating Industrial AI Deployment at Scale
As part of the partnership, Dassault Systèmes, through its OUTSCALE brand, is deploying AI factories aligned with its sustainable and sovereign cloud strategy. These OUTSCALE AI factories will utilize the latest NVIDIA AI infrastructure across three continents, expanding the ability to operate AI models within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform while ensuring data privacy, intellectual property protection, and customer sovereignty.
NVIDIA, in parallel, is adopting Dassault Systèmes’ model-based systems engineering methodology to design its own AI factories, beginning with the NVIDIA Rubin platform. This work integrates into the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint for large-scale AI factory deployment. The resulting infrastructure is expected to support Dassault Systèmes’ industrial Virtual Twins using NVIDIA open models and libraries, opening new opportunities across scientific research and industrial production.
In biology and materials science, the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform combined with BIOVIA science-validated world models is designed to accelerate the discovery of new molecules and advanced materials. In engineering and design, SIMULIA’s AI-based Virtual Twin physics behavior, leveraging NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and AI physics technologies, aims to enable faster and more accurate outcome prediction. For manufacturing, NVIDIA Omniverse physical AI libraries integrated into DELMIA Virtual Twins of global production systems are intended to support autonomous, software-defined factories.
The partnership also extends to virtual companions for industrial users. By combining NVIDIA AI technologies and NVIDIA Nemotron open models with Dassault Systèmes’ industry world models, the 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform is positioned to deliver trusted, context-aware intelligence at industrial scale.
Global Leaders Build the Future of Industry With Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA
“Bel Group is building a sustainable food future through responsible formulation and packaging. Through the NVIDIA-Dassault Systèmes collaboration, we gain the computational power to model and optimize our products at scale-accelerating innovation while delivering on our sustainability commitments,” said Cécile Béliot, Chief Executive Officer of Bel Group.
“To address the growing complexity of modern manufacturing, the industry must move toward fully autonomous and digitally validated production systems,” said Motohiro Yamanishi, President of Industrial Automation at OMRON. “By combining NVIDIA Physical AI frameworks with Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin Factory and OMRON’s automation technologies, manufacturers can move from design to deployment with greater confidence and speed.”
“Lucid’s award-winning engineering and technology continues to set new standards in the automotive industry, and Dassault Systèmes remains a key partner, enabling us to stay at the forefront of vehicle and powertrain engineering,” said Vivek Attaluri, Vice President of Vehicle Engineering at Lucid. “Agility, speed of innovation and rapid iteration are at the core of our work flows, and our exploration of Virtual Twin AI-based physics, powered by NVIDIA’s open-source physics informed AI models, has the potential to help our teams move from concept to production faster than ever before, without sacrificing predictive accuracy. We look forward to continued collaboration and leveraging these new tools to support Lucid’s future innovations.”
“NIAR empowers the next generation of aircraft. From asset digitization through design and manufacturing creation and validation, Virtual Twin technology introduces unparalleled capabilities and efficiency. Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Companions for engineering, leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform using NVIDIA Nemotron open models and Dassault Systèmes Industry World Models, accelerate the by-design compliant synthesis of aircraft Virtual Twins. Using the platform to align the Virtual Twin to the means of compliance, reduces certification efforts while preserving sovereignty of the information,“ said Shawn Ehrstein, Director, Emerging Technologies and CAD/CAM, National Institute for Aviation Research, Wichita State University.
The partnership was unveiled at 3DEXPERIENCE World, Dassault Systèmes’ annual event for the design and engineering communities, where Daloz and Huang discussed the future of AI-powered industry.
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About Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. Since 1981, the company has pioneered virtual worlds to improve real life for consumers, patients, and citizens. With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Dassault Systèmes enables more than 370,000 customers of all sizes, across all industries, to collaborate, imagine, and create sustainable innovations that drive meaningful impact. The company’s portfolio spans design, simulation, manufacturing, life sciences, and city systems, supporting long-term value creation through science-based, Virtual Twin-driven innovation.
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