NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: Everything will be showcased in virtual twins

2026-02-23 13:44:20

NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Dassault Systèmes CEO Pascal Daloz announced a partnership to build a shared industrial AI architecture that combines virtual twins with physics-based AI to redefine the future of design, engineering, and manufacturing.

At the 3DEXPERIENCE World conference in Houston, Jensen Huang and Pascal Daloz jointly outlined an industrial AI blueprint based on a physical “world model,” aiming to simulate the state of products, factories, and even biological systems before they are built.

“AI will become an infrastructure like water, electricity, and the internet,” Huang said on stage, humorously referring to engineers in the audience as “Solid Workers” in homage to Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks platform.

This announcement continues a partnership that has spanned over 25 years between NVIDIA and Dassault Systèmes.

Huang stated, “This is the largest collaboration between our two companies in 25 years. We will integrate these technologies so that engineers can work at scales 100 times, 1,000 times, and ultimately 1 million times larger than before.”

The new partnership will combine NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI libraries with Dassault Systèmes’ virtual twin platform, migrating more engineering work into real-time digital workflows supported by AI assistants to help teams explore, validate, prototype, and iterate more quickly.

Huang views this shift as a reshaping of the compute stack: moving from manually specified structured digital designs to systems that can generate, simulate, and optimize within software at industrial scale.

“Success is not about automation; engineers don’t want to automate past achievements—they want to create the future,” Daloz said.

Both CEOs emphasized that the goal of the collaboration is not to replace engineers but to enhance their capabilities. As AI assistants take on more exploratory and repetitive tasks, designers and engineers will have greater room for creativity and innovation rather than being burdened with work redundancy.

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