NVIDIA & Dassault Systèmes Unveil Industrial AI & Virtual Twin Partnership

The companies aim to establish a shared industrial architecture for artificial intelligence and science-validated simulation.

Published on Feb. 10, 2026

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Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have announced a deepened strategic partnership to combine Dassault's Virtual Twin technologies with NVIDIA's AI infrastructure, creating 'Industry World Models' - advanced AI systems designed to simulate and optimize complex systems across industries. The collaboration will manifest in areas like accelerating biology and materials research, enabling more accurate and rapid design and engineering, building autonomous software-defined production systems, and providing 'Virtual Companions' to assist engineers.

Why it matters

This partnership represents a significant investment in the future of industrial AI, with the potential to dramatically scale engineering capabilities, accelerate innovation, and reduce the risk of costly mistakes across a range of industries. By integrating virtual twins and AI, the companies aim to establish a new paradigm for designing and operating factories as living, constantly optimized systems.

The details

The core idea is to move beyond traditional digital models and create dynamic, physics-based simulations that accurately reflect real-world behavior. Dassault Systèmes' Virtual Twins will be combined with NVIDIA's AI infrastructure to establish Industry World Models grounded in scientific principles. This will enable AI to learn the underlying 'language' of complex systems and generate novel options for evaluation and validation in simulation. The collaboration will also see NVIDIA Omniverse integrated with Dassault's DELMIA platform to create autonomous, software-defined production systems, as well as the introduction of 'Virtual Companions' - AI assistants that offer contextualized intelligence and support to engineers and designers.

  • The partnership was unveiled on February 3, 2026 at 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston.
  • The companies will showcase the collaboration at GTC San Jose from March 16 to March 19, 2026.

The players

Dassault Systèmes

A French software company that is a pioneer in Virtual Twin technology, allowing engineers to create digital replicas of products and processes.

NVIDIA

An American technology company known for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and AI infrastructure.

Jensen Huang

The founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

Pascal Daloz

The CEO of Dassault Systèmes.

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What they’re saying

“This is the largest collaboration our two companies have ever had in over a quarter century.”

— Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA (newsdirectory3.com)

“Virtual Twins are not simply applications, but rather 'knowledge factories' – environments where knowledge is created, tested and validated before physical implementation.”

— Pascal Daloz, CEO, Dassault Systèmes (newsdirectory3.com)

“Success is not about automation. Engineers don't want to automate the past – they want to invent the future.”

— Pascal Daloz, CEO, Dassault Systèmes (newsdirectory3.com)

What’s next

The companies will showcase the collaboration at GTC San Jose from March 16 to March 19, 2026, with a session on virtual twins led by Florence Hu-Aubigny and demonstrations at booth 1841 in the Industrial AI and Robotics pavilion.

The takeaway

This partnership between Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA represents a significant step forward in the integration of virtual twins and AI, with the potential to unlock new possibilities for innovation, reduce the risk of costly mistakes, and create entirely new categories of products across a range of industries.