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Dassault Systèmes today launched Virtual Companions, a groundbreaking category of AI-powered industrial experts integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Building on the 3D UNIV+RSES vision announced last year, these companions—Aura, Leo, and Marie—embody decades of industrial knowledge and know-how, empowering users through natural conversations to help, teach, reason, and orchestrate actions across the full product and service lifecycle.
Traditional industrial processes struggle with complexity, fragmented knowledge, and long validation cycles. Virtual Companions address these by fusing advanced AI with Dassault Systèmes’ deep domain models and simulation capabilities. They go beyond large language models by reasoning with physics-based world models, orchestrating multi-disciplinary actions, and ensuring outputs are traceable, compliant, and trustworthy.
“In the Generative Economy, industry produces knowledge and know-how that generates objects: this is where true value lies,” said Pascal Daloz, CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “The time has come to put knowledge to work by creating a new kind of teamwork between humans and Virtual Companions to make the invisible visible and the impossible possible before anything physically exists, accelerating innovation cycles while protecting the most critical assets.”
The companions enable real-time co-creation environments where humans and AI collaborate safely at scale—across disciplines, organizations, and the full lifecycle from conception to regeneration. This approach supports industries in accelerating sustainable innovation while safeguarding intellectual property and regulatory compliance.
Pascal Daloz introduced Virtual Companions during 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026. A replay of the general session, including live demonstrations, is available online.
Virtual Companions can be applied across all Dassault Systèmes brands and industries, delivering mission-critical outcomes through trusted, explainable AI collaboration.
About Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. Since 1981, the company has pioneered virtual worlds to improve real life for consumers, patients and citizens. With Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, 370,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, can collaborate, imagine and create sustainable innovations that drive meaningful impact.
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