Everything Will Be Represented in a Virtual Twin, Jensen Huang Says at 3DEXPERIENCE World
Source: NVIDIA AI Blog
NVIDIA & Dassault Systèmes Unveil a Blueprint for Industrial AI
At 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz laid out a blueprint for industrial AI rooted in physics‑based “world models” — systems designed to simulate products, factories, and even biological systems before they’re built.
“Artificial intelligence will be infrastructure,” Huang told the crowd, likening AI to water, electricity, and the internet. He playfully referred to the engineering‑heavy audience as “Solid Workers,” a nod to Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks platform.
The announcement (see the official press release here) continues a collaboration spanning more than a quarter‑century between the two companies.
“This is the largest collaboration our two companies have ever had in over a quarter century,” Huang said.
“We’re going to fuse these technologies so engineers can work at a scale that’s 100 times, 1,000 times — and eventually a million times greater than before.”
What the partnership brings
- NVIDIA accelerated computing & AI libraries integrated with Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin platforms.
- Real‑time digital workflows that move more engineering work into AI‑driven environments.
- AI “companions” that help teams explore, validate, prototype, and iterate faster.
Watch the overview video: NVIDIA + Dassault Systèmes – Industrial AI
Vision for the future
Huang framed the shift as a reinvention of the computing stack: moving from hand‑specified, structured digital designs to systems that can generate, simulate, and optimize in software—at industrial scale.
For more details, see the original announcement video: Blueprint for Industrial AI.
From Digital Models to Industry World Models
“Virtual twins are not applications, they are knowledge factories,” – Daloz
The partnership aims to establish industry world models—science‑validated AI systems grounded in physics that can serve as mission‑critical platforms across biology, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing.
In Daloz’s framing, the value moves upstream: virtual twins become the place where knowledge is created, tested, and trusted before anything is built in the physical world.
Dassault Systèmes, whose 3DEXPERIENCE platform serves more than 45 million users and 400 000 customers globally, has long been a leader in virtual‑twin technology—digital replicas that let engineers simulate products and processes before building them physically.
The collaboration brings together accelerated computing, AI, and digital‑twin technologies so engineers can design not only geometry but also behavior, exploring radically larger design spaces earlier in development.
Shared Architecture Across Workflows
| Domain | Solution | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Advancing Biology and Materials Research | NVIDIA BioNeMo + BIOVIA | Science‑validated world models accelerate discovery of new molecules and next‑generation materials. |
| AI‑Driven Design and Engineering | SIMULIA + NVIDIA CUDA‑X | AI‑based Virtual Twin Physics Behavior leverages CUDA‑X and AI physics libraries to let designers predict outcomes accurately and instantly. |
| Virtual Twins for Every Factory | NVIDIA Omniverse + DELMIA | Physical‑AI libraries integrated into DELMIA Virtual Twin enable autonomous, software‑defined production systems. |
| Virtual Companions for Dassault Systèmes Users | 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform + NVIDIA Nemotron open models | Powers Virtual Companions that tap into deep industrial context, delivering trusted, actionable intelligence. |
Huang added that, in domains like biology and materials, the frontier is learning the underlying “language” of complex systems and then generating new options that can be evaluated and validated in simulation.
Designing and Operating the Factory in Software
- A central theme of the discussion was how factories themselves are changing — from static physical assets to living systems that are designed, simulated, and operated as virtual twins.
- As part of the partnership, Dassault Systèmes is deploying NVIDIA‑powered AI factories on three continents through its OUTSCALE sovereign cloud, enabling customers to run AI workloads while maintaining data residency and security requirements.
- Both executives emphasized that the goal isn’t to replace engineers — it’s to amplify them. As AI‑agent companions take on more exploratory and repetitive tasks, designers and engineers gain leverage and creativity, not redundancy.
AI Companions That Expand Human Creativity
Every designer will have a “team of companions,” Huang said — a shift he described as fundamentally positive for engineers, software platforms, and the broader ecosystem built on them.
For the tens of millions of engineers who use Dassault Systèmes tools to design everything from aircraft to consumer packaged goods, the shift isn’t about replacing human creativity — it’s about expanding it.
“Success is not about automation,” Daloz said. “[Engineers] don’t want to automate the past — they want to invent the future.”
Looking ahead, Daloz framed the partnership as more than a performance boost:
- Opening new possibilities.
- Helping companies eliminate bad choices before they become expensive mistakes.
- Creating entirely new categories of products.
“Virtual twins and the 3D Universes are not applications,” Daloz said. “They are knowledge factories.”
The fireside conversation between Huang and Daloz was broadcast live from 3DEXPERIENCE World: