NVIDIA AI Podcast

How Dassault Systèmes Is Building AI That Understands Physics - Ep. 296

23 min

Dassault Systèmes is pioneering "AI for industry" with their "Industry World Models" and "Virtual Companions." These systems are grounded in science and physics, fueled by industry knowledge, and designed to augment human engineers by understanding intent, reasoning with complex models, and orchestrating actions in industrial environments. They leverage NVIDIA technologies to accelerate these agentic AI systems, transforming their platform into an agent-as-a-service model.

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✨ Key Takeaways

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Dassault Systèmes' "Industry World Models" differ from classic generative AI by understanding *how things work* through embedded scientific and physical laws, rather than just learning from observation.
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"Virtual Companions" are AI co-workers (e.g., Leo, Orah, Marie) designed to augment human engineers by understanding intent, reasoning with industry world models, and orchestrating actions while complying with regulations and protecting intellectual property.
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Trust in these industrial AI systems is built upon a scientific foundation, a human-in-the-loop approach, and IP Lifecycle Management (IPLM) for ensuring lineage, traceability, and auditability of all AI interactions.
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A 25-year partnership with NVIDIA is crucial, with NVIDIA's AI factories, CUDAX libraries, Omniverse, NIMS models, NemoTron, AIQ blueprint, and Deep Agent technologies infused across Dassault Systèmes' architecture to accelerate understanding, reasoning, and execution.
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The company is transforming its 3DExperience platform from a SaaS architecture to an agent-as-a-service model, aiming for self-evolving virtual twins that can continuously monitor, optimize, and learn without constant human prompting, using virtual twins as a 'gym' for training.

💬 Notable Quotes

"The agents can use virtual cleaners as a gym to train themselves. So they can run, in fact, millions of simulation or design experimentation and present to you, to the human, to the engineers, to the proven solution."
"Our industry world model principles, they understand how things work. They really understand the scientific foundation. They include the scientific, physical laws of the world, the physics, the engineering rules, chemistry, material science, etc."
"We don't want to replace people. We want to augment people who we want to free time to people to innovate and solve problems."