Nvidia and Dassault in New ‘Industrial AI’ Pact
Nvidia and Dassault Systèmes announced a new Industrial AI partnership today that aims to push the envelope in the use of AI and digital twin technology to accelerate innovation in the fields of biology, materials science, engineering, and manufacturing.
Dassault Systèmes is a digital powerhouse for product engineering. Its 3D computer aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle management (PLM) software is used by 15 million scientists and engineers around thew world. The company’s software benefits from the graphical processing power of Nvidia GPUs, and the two companies have been partners for decades.
Today’s announcement builds on that existing partnership, and commits the two companies to work together to bring new Industrial AI capabilities to market. Notably, the partnership calls for Dassault Systèmes to build new AI factories that combine its digital twin technology with Nvidia AI models. All of this, naturally, will run on Nvidia’s accelerated compute hardware.
Dassault Systèmes hopes to accelerate pharmaceutical research with its new Nvida-based solutions based on AI and virtual twin technology (Image courtesy Dassault Systèmes)
The goal is to combine emerging physical AI technologies with trusted scientific and engineering principles to provide a powerful new way to perform scientific research and engineer products, said Florence Hu-Aubigny, executive vice president of R&D at Dassault Systèmes.
“We are going to bring the factories of the future to life,” Hu said in a press conference on Monday, “and we are going to unlock the full potential of industrial knowledge through new ways of working.”
According to the announcement, to advance biology and materials research, the companies will integrate Nvidia’s BioNeMo models with Dassault Systèmes’ Biovia platform to accelerate the discovery of new molecules and next-generation materials.
In the field of AI-driven design and engineering, the companies are combining Dassault Systèmes “virtual twin” platform Similia with Nvidia CUDA-X and AI physics libraries to improve the accuracy of digital twins. They will also work to integrate Nvidia’s Omniverse physical AI libraries with Dassault’s Delmia software, which is used to automate manufacturing and operations.
Finally, the partners are also working to combine Dassault Systèmes’ 3Dexperience PLM and Industry World Models software with Nvidia Nemotron open models to give joint customers better modeling capabilities.
There’s a subtle but fundamental difference in how existing digital twin technology has been used in the past and how new the new AI-powered digital twin solutions that Dassault Systèmes and Nvidia are developing will work, said Rev Lebaredian, VP of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia.
“The world foundation models that are being trained [currently] are being trained on information about what we observe as consumers of the world outside. So these are largely based on video and observations of the world after things are built,” Lebaredian said during the press conference.
“What’s missing is how the world is built, the information about that inside these world foundation models,” he continued. “These models are fundamentally different. They’re not just about how the world works after we built it, but it has knowledge about how we build the world.”
The new partnership also looks to leverage recent breakthroughs in agentic AI technology to help supercharge the abilities of scientist and engineers by giving them a team of assistants that can process information and augment their knowledge, Lebaredian said.
“By bringing [agentic AI] into the industrial space here, we’re effectively going to make it so anybody who is building and designing anything for the real world can now have a team of assistants that has deep knowledge about how things are built to help them,” he said.
“These kinds of abilities to build virtual twins, to simulate the physical world, have been restricted to a very small number of people who know how to operate and use these tools,” he continued. “The physical AIs, the industrial AI that that we are building with Dassault Systèmes will allow effectively every person eventually to be able to use all of these capabilities, not just the few small number of people in in in these niche areas in our companies.”
This article first appeared on HPCwire.
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