Dassault Systèmes has introduced Virtual Companions, a new category of AI-powered experts on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, designed to transform the way the industry creates, tests and validates innovations and operations.
One year after presenting its 3D vision UNIV+RSES, Dassault Systèmes fulfills its ambition to become the trusted partner of its customers to help them enter the Generative Economy. It does this by offering this new way of working that allows people and artificial intelligence to collaborate safely, intelligently and at scale on the most complex industrial challenges.
Three Virtual Companions provide complementary approaches to the challenges of industrial business:
- Aura orchestrates knowledge and context across requirements, projects, and changes, helping teams manage complexity and stay aligned.
- Leo solves complex engineering challenges across multiple disciplines, from design to production.
- Marie applies deep scientific expertise—materials, chemistry, formulations, and therapies—to investigate complex phenomena, ask frontier questions, and explore disruptive hypotheses.
Model Combination
Beyond great language models, Virtual Companions are based on science and decades of professional-level industrial knowledge: the combination of Industrial World Models, AI, and multiscale, multidisciplinary modeling and simulation, validated by the laws of physics and materials science.
Virtual Companions understand user intent, reason and orchestrate actions throughout the entire life cycle of products and services, from conception to use and regeneration. To ensure accuracy, traceability, and trust, they simulate behaviors and consequences before anything physically exists.
The 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform scales to manage the asynchronous choreography of thousands of Virtual Companions and individuals, while meeting sovereignty requirements.
“In the Generative Economy, industry produces knowledge and know-how that generate objects: that is where the true value lies. The time has come to put knowledge to work, creating a new type of teamwork between people and Virtual Colleagues, to make the invisible visible and the impossible possible before anything physically exists, accelerating innovation cycles and protecting the most critical assets,” says Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systèmes.
To ensure accuracy, traceability and trust, they simulate behaviors and consequences before anything physically exists
Pascal Daloz presented the Virtual Companions during 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026. A replay of the event’s general session – including a demonstration of the Virtual Companions – is available online.
Virtual Companions can be used with all Dassault Systèmes brands in all industrial sectors. Aura is now available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Leo and Marie will be available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform throughout 2026.
