Dassault Systèmes Debuts AI-Powered Virtual Companions

Dassault Systèmes has introduced Virtual Companions, a new category of AI-powered experts on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, designed to reimagine how industry creates, tests and validates innovations and operations, the company reports.

One year after unveiling its 3D UNIV+RSES vision, Dassault Systèmes delivers on its goal to help its clients enter the Generative Economy by delivering a new way of working—enabling humans and AI to collaborate safely, intelligently and at scale on complex industrial challenges.

Three Virtual Companions bring new approaches to industrial business challenges:

• Aura orchestrates knowledge and context across requirements, projects and changes, helping teams navigate complexity and maintain alignment.
• Leo solves complex engineering challenges across engineering disciplines, from design to production.
• Marie applies deep scientific expertise — materials, chemistry, formulations and therapies — to investigate complex phenomena, formulate frontier questions and explore new hypotheses.

Beyond Large Language Models, Virtual Companions combine Industry World Models, AI, and multi-scale, multi-discipline modeling and simulation validated by physics and materials science.

Virtual Companions understand user intent, reason, and orchestrate actions across the full life cycle of products and services, from conception to usage and regeneration. 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 humans, while complying with sovereignty requirements.

“In the Generative Economy, industry produces knowledge and know-how that generates objects: this is where true value lies. 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,” says Pascal Daloz, CEO, Dassault Systèmes.

Pascal Daloz introduced Virtual Companions during 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026. A replay of the event’s general session — including a demonstration of virtual companions — is available online.

Virtual Companions can be used with all Dassault Systèmes brands across industries. Aura is already available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Leo and Marie will be available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform in 2026.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.