Dassault Systèmes said on the 24th that it applied a virtual companion, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that supports users' work, to its 3D Experience platform.
The virtual companions "AURA," "LEO," and "MARIE" were built on industrial knowledge and know-how that Dassault Systèmes has accumulated over decades. Dassault Systèmes said the trio of "virtual companions" go beyond chatbots based on large language models (LLMs) to understand and reason through complex industrial challenges, and support work across the entire process from product planning to design, production, and operations.
AURA is an AI assistant that coordinates knowledge and context across projects and is similar to popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT. LEO solves complex engineering challenges from design to production. MARIE explores complex phenomena and tests hypotheses based on deep scientific expertise in materials, chemistry, formulation, and therapeutics.
Among the virtual companions, AURA is already available on the 3D Experience platform, and LEO and MARIE are scheduled to be offered on the 3D Experience platform within this year.
Pascal Daloz, CEO of Dassault Systèmes, said, "The time has come to make the invisible visible and make the impossible possible before it physically exists through a new teamwork between humans and virtual companions, and to apply that knowledge to real work."
Dassault Systèmes, headquartered in France, is a leader in AI-based Virtual Twin technology. A virtual twin is a technology that implements a virtual model identical to reality, creating a "twin" of a real-world object in virtual space to run simulations and, based on them, predict outcomes in advance to optimize products and services.