HOUSTON — Nvidia announced a partnership with software developer Dassault Systèmes to establish a shared industrial architecture for mission-critical artificial intelligence across various industries.
The collaboration, revealed at Dassault's 3DEXPERIENCE World conference in Houston, will combine Dassault's virtual twin technologies with Nvidia's AI infrastructure, open models and accelerated software libraries. The companies hope to establish science-validated industry world models and new ways of working through skilled virtual companions on the agentic 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
“We are entering an era where artificial intelligence does not just predict or generate, but understands the real world," Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz said. "When AI is grounded in science, physics and validated industrial knowledge, it becomes a force multiplier for human ingenuity."
Dassault Systèmes, with its OUTSCALE brand, plans to deploy AI factories as part of its sustainable and sovereign cloud strategy. The company stated that 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’s customers.
Nvidia will adopt Dassault's 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.
"It’s very likely that every single factory will be simulated and operated inside a virtual twin," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. "We want to simulate or emulate how these factories will operate in the real world, so that we can arrange the manufacturing lines properly, arrange it in the right sequence, space it properly, organize the robots within it. All of this is going to happen inside a virtual twin."
Dassault Systèmes and Nvidia
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 leveraging Nvidia CUDA-X libraries and AI physics libraries will allow 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.
Industry Perspective
Industry leaders noted that the combined platforms could accelerate adoption by addressing both production speed and regulatory complexity.
Lucid Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Vivek Attaluri said combining virtual twin physics with Nvidia's physics-informed AI models could accelerate the transition from concept to production without sacrificing predictive accuracy.
Shawn Ehrstein, the director of emerging technologies and CAD/CAM at the National Institute for Aviation Research, added that using the platform to align the virtual twin to the means of compliance could reduce certification efforts while preserving data sovereignty.
