Everything Will Be Represented in a Virtual Twin, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says at 3DEXPERIENCE World

Source: NVIDIA AI Blog

NVIDIA & Dassault Systèmes Unveil an Industrial‑AI Blueprint

At 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston, NVIDIA founder‑CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz laid out a roadmap for industrial AI built on physics‑based “world models” – digital twins that can simulate products, factories, and even biological systems before they are built.

“Artificial intelligence will be infrastructure, like water, electricity and the internet.”
— Jensen Huang, addressing the engineering‑heavy audience he playfully called “Solid Workers,” a nod to Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks platform.

Why This Matters

• The announcement continues a quarter‑century partnership between NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes.
• It is described as the largest collaboration between the two companies to date.
• The goal: fuse NVIDIA accelerated computing & AI libraries with Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin platforms, moving more engineering work into real‑time digital workflows.
• AI “companions” will help teams explore, validate, prototype, and iterate faster, scaling engineering effort 100×, 1 000×, and eventually 1 000 000× beyond current capabilities.

Key Highlights

• Reinvented computing stack – shifting from hand‑specified, structured digital designs to systems that can generate, simulate, and optimize designs autonomously at industrial scale.
• Real‑time digital twins – enabling engineers to test and refine concepts virtually, reducing physical prototyping time and cost.
• AI‑driven assistance – intelligent agents that suggest design improvements, predict performance, and streamline validation.

Learn More

• Blueprint video: Watch on YouTube
• Industrial‑AI definition: NVIDIA Glossary
• Official announcement: NVIDIA News Release
• Virtual Twin integration demo: YouTube demo

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 geometry as well as behavior and explore radically larger design spaces earlier in development.

Shared Architecture Across Science, Engineering, and Manufacturing

• Advancing Biology and Materials Research
  The NVIDIA BioNeMo platform and BIOVIA science‑validated world models accelerate the discovery of new molecules and next‑generation materials.

• AI‑Driven Design and Engineering
  SIMULIA AI‑based Virtual Twin Physics Behavior, powered by NVIDIA CUDA‑X 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 with DELMIA Virtual Twin 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 that tap into deep industrial context, delivering trusted, actionable intelligence.

Huang noted 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.

• Partnership Highlights

  • Dassault Systèmes is deploying NVIDIA‑powered AI factories on three continents.
  • The deployment runs on the OUTSCALE sovereign cloud (3DS OUTSCALE), allowing customers to execute AI workloads while meeting data‑residency and security requirements.

• Human‑Centric AI

  • Both executives emphasized that the goal isn’t to replace engineers; it’s to amplify them.
  • AI‑agent companions handle exploratory and repetitive tasks, giving designers and engineers more leverage and creative freedom rather than creating 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; it’s an effort to:

• Open new possibilities
• Help companies eliminate bad choices before they become expensive mistakes
• Create 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.