Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have announced a long-term strategic partnership to create a shared industrial architecture for mission-critical artificial intelligence across industries. The collaboration combines Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin technologies with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, open models, and accelerated software libraries to develop science-validated Industry World Models. These models will power skilled virtual companions on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, enabling professionals to design, simulate, and operate complex systems in fields like biology, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing with greater confidence and speed. Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systèmes, emphasized that AI is evolving beyond prediction and generation to true understanding of the physical world. When grounded in scientific principles, physics, and validated industrial knowledge, AI becomes a force multiplier for human creativity. The partnership aims to build trustworthy, scalable industrial AI systems that are designed for real-world application and innovation in the generative economy. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, described Physical AI as the next frontier of artificial intelligence—systems that understand and operate within the laws of the physical world. By uniting Dassault Systèmes’ decades of industrial expertise with NVIDIA’s AI and Omniverse platforms, the companies are transforming how researchers, engineers, and designers build and innovate across global industries. As part of this effort, Dassault Systèmes is deploying AI factories under its OUTSCALE brand as part of a sustainable and sovereign cloud strategy. These AI factories, powered by NVIDIA’s latest infrastructure across three continents, will enable secure, private, and sovereign operation of AI models within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform—protecting customer data and intellectual property. NVIDIA is also adopting Dassault Systèmes’ model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach to design its own AI factories, starting with the NVIDIA Rubin platform. The integration into the NVIDIA Omniverse™ DSX Blueprint will support large-scale, efficient deployment of AI infrastructure. The partnership will accelerate innovation in multiple sectors. Bel Group, a food company, will use the combined technologies to model and optimize sustainable formulations and packaging at scale. OMRON’s President of Industrial Automation, Motohiro Yamanishi, highlighted the importance of autonomous, digitally validated production systems, enabled by the integration of NVIDIA’s physical AI frameworks with Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin Factory and OMRON’s automation solutions. Lucid Motors, known for its advanced electric vehicles, sees the collaboration as key to accelerating vehicle and powertrain engineering. Vivek Attaluri, Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, noted that multi-physics Digital Twin simulations powered by NVIDIA’s physics-informed open models will allow faster, more accurate design-to-production cycles without sacrificing performance. At the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR), Shawn Ehrstein pointed to the transformative potential of Virtual Twin technology in aircraft development. By using Dassault Systèmes’ agentic platform with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, engineers can rapidly create compliant, design-accurate aircraft twins, significantly reducing certification time while maintaining full data sovereignty. The partnership was officially announced at 3DEXPERIENCE World, Dassault Systèmes’ annual event, with Daloz and Huang presenting live on February 3. A replay of their discussion is available on YouTube. This collaboration marks a major step toward a new era of industrial AI—where intelligent systems are not just reactive, but proactive, scientifically grounded, and deeply integrated into real-world innovation. By combining virtual modeling with physical AI, Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA are laying the foundation for a more efficient, sustainable, and intelligent future across global industries.