At 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz unveiled a bold vision for the future of industrial innovation, centered on physics-based AI world models and the widespread adoption of virtual twins across industries. Huang declared that artificial intelligence will become infrastructure—on par with water, electricity, and the internet—positioning it as essential to modern engineering and manufacturing. The event marked the most ambitious collaboration yet between NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes, a partnership that spans over 25 years. Huang described the new alliance as transformative, enabling engineers to work at scales 100, 1,000, and eventually a million times greater than before. By combining NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI frameworks with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and virtual twin technology, the companies aim to shift engineering from static, hand-designed models to dynamic, AI-driven systems that generate, simulate, and optimize designs in real time. Virtual twins, as Daloz emphasized, are not just tools or applications—they are “knowledge factories.” These digital replicas serve as living platforms where scientific and engineering knowledge is created, tested, and validated before any physical product is built. The goal is to embed physics-driven AI into every stage of development, from product design to factory operations. The partnership will enable engineers to design not just the shape of a product, but its behavior—allowing for the exploration of vastly larger design spaces earlier in the process. This shift is particularly critical in complex fields like biology, materials science, and advanced manufacturing, where understanding the underlying “language” of systems is key to innovation. A major focus of the collaboration is the transformation of factories themselves. Modern manufacturing facilities are evolving into intelligent, adaptive systems that are designed, simulated, and operated as virtual twins. To support this, Dassault Systèmes is deploying NVIDIA-powered AI factories on three continents via its OUTSCALE sovereign cloud, ensuring data privacy, compliance, and security while enabling high-performance AI workloads. Huang stressed that the role of AI is not to replace engineers, but to amplify them. Every designer will have a team of AI companions—intelligent agents that handle repetitive and exploratory tasks, freeing engineers to focus on creativity and innovation. “Success is not about automation,” Daloz said. “Engineers don’t want to automate the past—they want to invent the future.” The vision extends beyond efficiency gains. By simulating and validating ideas early, companies can avoid costly mistakes, reduce waste, and unlock entirely new product categories. Virtual twins and the digital ecosystems they power are not just tools for design—they are platforms for discovery and knowledge creation. The conversation between Huang and Daloz, broadcast live from the event, highlighted a fundamental shift in how industries approach innovation: the future of engineering is not just digital—it is intelligent, predictive, and deeply integrated with AI.