NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared that everything will eventually have a virtual twin, announcing a significant partnership with Dassault Systèmes at 3DEXPERIENCE World. The collaboration merges NVIDIA's accelerated computing and AI with Dassault's virtual twin platforms to build a shared industrial AI architecture, designed to simulate products, factories, and even biological systems using physics-based AI.
From Digital Models to World Models
Huang emphasized that AI will become essential infrastructure, akin to electricity or the internet. This partnership, the largest between the two companies in over 25 years, aims to enable engineers to work at scales previously unimaginable, potentially 100 to a million times greater.
Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz described virtual twins not as mere applications, but as 'knowledge factories.' The initiative focuses on establishing 'industry world models', science-validated AI systems grounded in physics, to serve as critical platforms for research and development.
The collaboration integrates NVIDIA's AI and computing power with Dassault's 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which boasts over 45 million users. This fusion allows for the design and simulation of both geometry and behavior, enabling exploration of vastly larger design spaces earlier in the development cycle.
AI Companions for Engineers
The partnership will introduce AI-driven virtual companions. These agents, powered by NVIDIA's Nemotron open models and Dassault's industry world models, will assist engineers by accessing deep industrial context to provide actionable intelligence.