Nvidia partners with Dassault Systèmes to build industrial AI platform for virtual twins, physics-based simulation

2026-02-03 - 19:25

Nvidia and French software company Dassault Systèmes unveiled a long-term partnership on Tuesday to build a joint industrial AI platform designed to support advanced applications across multiple industries. The collaboration aims to move beyond point solutions by embedding AI systems within technical constraints, physics, and validated industry knowledge, ultimately creating what the companies call “Industry World Models”—digital systems of record for designing, simulating, and operating complex products and manufacturing processes. Technology Integration and Vision The platform will integrate Dassault Systèmes’ Virtual Twin technology with Nvidia’s AI infrastructure, open models, and accelerated software libraries. According to the companies, the partnership represents a shift toward “physical AI,” where AI systems are engineered to understand and reason about the physical world rather than relying solely on text or images. The initiative builds on more than 25 years of prior cooperation, beginning with Dassault’s Catia design software on Nvidia GPUs and expanding into GPU-accelerated physics simulation using Nvidia’s CUDA and RTX technologies. Deployment and Data Sovereignty Dassault Systèmes will implement “AI factories” across three continents under its Outscale cloud brand, using Nvidia infrastructure to allow clients to develop and run AI models while maintaining data sovereignty, intellectual property protection, and regulatory compliance. In turn, Nvidia will use Dassault’s model-based systems engineering tools to design its own AI factories, starting with the upcoming Rubin platform, and will apply the same approach through its Omniverse DSX Blueprint for large-scale AI factory deployment.