Dassault Systèmes, NVIDIA partner to build industrial AI platform powering Virtual Twins

At 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston, Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership to establish a shared industrial architecture for mission-critical artificial intelligence across industries.

By combining Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin technologies with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, open models and accelerated software libraries, the companies said this will establish science-validated Industry World Models and new ways of working through skilled virtual companions on the agentic 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which empowers professionals with new expertise.

Partnership looks to accelerate every industry

Dassault Systèmes, with its OUTSCALE brand, said it is deploying AI factories as part of its sustainable and sovereign cloud strategy. OUTSCALE AI factories will 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.

“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, CEO 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.”

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.

"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. “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.”

Industrial uses for Virtual Twins and AI

The companies said that this infrastructure will power Dassault Systèmes’ industrial Virtual Twins using NVIDIA open models and libraries, unlocking new opportunities across biology, materials science, engineering and manufacturing.

Building anything complex in the physical world becomes more and more difficult as the complexity increases,” said Rev Lebaredian, VP of Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. “Designing things correctly and deploying things that work in the physical world becomes exponentially harder as the complexity of these systems increases. The only way to really do this correctly is by simulating them at the design phase and well before you actually do the deployment.”

The companies highlighted the following opportunities and areas to utilize these technologies:

• Advancing biology and materials research​: The NVIDIA BioNeMo platform, combined with BIOVIA science-validated world models, will accelerate the discovery of new molecules and next-generation materials.
• AI-driven design and engineering: SIMULIA AI-based Virtual Twin physics behavior utilizing NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and AI physics libraries empowers 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 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, delivering trusted, actionable intelligence with industrial-scale efficiency.

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, through a unique combination of Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin Factories and NVIDIA’s AI technologies for all industries.