HOUSTON—Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have begun a long-term strategic partnership to establish a shared industrial architecture for mission-critical artificial intelligence across industries, according to a joint announcement by the companies in February.
The combination of Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin technologies and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, open models, and accelerated software libraries is intended to establish science-validated industry World Models and new ways of working through skilled virtual companions on the agentic 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the companies said in a release announcing the partnership.
The platform, accelerated by NVIDIA and grounded in science by Dassault Systèmes, is reported to expand long-term value creation across biology, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing through a new way of working: skilled virtual companions. (Image: Dassault Systèmes, Lucid Motors, OMRON, NVIDIA)
“We are entering an era where artificial intelligence does not just predict or generate, but understands the real world,” said Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systèmes, in the release. “When AI is grounded in science, physics, and validated industrial knowledge, it becomes a force multiplier for human ingenuity.
“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 continued. “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 CEO of NVIDIA, in the release. “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.”
Dassault Systèmes, with its OUTSCALE brand, is deploying AI factories as part of its sustainable and sovereign cloud strategy. The plan is for OUTSCALE AI factories to harness the latest NVIDIA AI infrastructure on three continents, bringing additional capabilities to operate AI models in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform while “guaranteeing data privacy, intellectual property protection and sovereignty of Dassault Systèmes’ customers,” the release stated.
NVIDIA is adopting Dassault Systèmes’ model-based systems engineering (MBSE) to design AI factories, starting with the NVIDIA Rubin platform and integrating into the NVIDIA Omniverse™ DSX Blueprint for large-scale AI factory deployment.
This infrastructure will power Dassault Systèmes’ industrial Virtual Twins using NVIDIA open models and libraries. It is expected to unlock new opportunities across biology, materials science, engineering and manufacturing, the release said. Following are some of these opportunities:
Advancing biology and materials research: The NVIDIA BioNeMo™ platform, combined with BIOVIA science-validated world models, are expected to 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, is reported to empower 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 of global production systems, are said to 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. This is expected to deliver “trusted, actionable intelligence with industrial-scale efficiency.”
According to the companies, the partnership elevates the existing collaboration between Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA to a shared long-term vision for how industrial AI will be built, validated, and deployed at scale. It does so through a unique combination of Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin Factories and NVIDIA’s AI technologies for all industries.
Building the future of industry
“Bel Group is building a sustainable food future through responsible formulation and packaging,” said Cécile Béliot, CEO of Bel Group, in the release. “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.”
Motohiro Yamanishi, president of Industrial Automation at OMRON, said that the industry must move toward fully autonomous and digitally validated production systems to address the growing complexity of modern manufacturing.
“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,” Yamanishi said in the release.
“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, in the release. “Agility, speed of innovation, and rapid iteration are at the core of our workflows, 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,” he concluded.