# Research at Speed and Innovate for Sustainability With Industrial AI

Accelerate sustainable innovation with 3D UNIVERSES. Using AI-ready scientific data, discover chemicals, develop formulas, and deliver the drugs, materials, and recipes that will define the next decade of your business.

## Time Wasted in Failed Innovation Is Becoming Unsustainable for Both Industry and Planet

By 2050, there will be almost 10 billion humans on earth. Providing for more with less requires total transformation, and that starts with the very building blocks of our world – the **molecules and materials** we use to make our medicines, formulate new food, or design sustainable products.

Current processes impose hard limits on the speed of research and innovation. The research landscape is **characterized by fragmentation**, from siloed tools to disconnected teams to unstructured and inaccessible data.

And this comes at a cost: in medicine, 90% of new drugs do not pass clinical trials; while in the consumer goods sector, only 15-20% of products designed, manufactured and delivered each year actually succeed in the market. Something has to change.

## 3D UNIVERSES Structure Your Knowledge for Radically Intuitive Innovation

The scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow will have real-world impacts – but they will be driven by virtual processes. And 3D UNIVERSES are key to bridging the gap between the **virtual and real worlds**.

By structuring and elevating your knowledge and know-how so that it is shareable between virtual twins, and centralized in a single environment, V+R solutions give you access to a new representation of the world, where the management of existing IP is simplified and the creation of new IP accelerated.

And 3D UNIVERSES don’t just make your data more standardized and interoperable – they turn it into a strategic business asset. While current LLMs are increasingly hitting scaling limits and facing diminishing returns, our science-backed industrial AI is equipped with the world models needed to help you accelerate the targeted discovery of new chemicals, molecules, and formulations, or develop new processes and methodologies.

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## Simulation-Driven Innovation in a Generative World

Whatever your innovation needs, from delivering next-gen electrolytes to the development of groundbreaking new medicines, 3D UNIVERSES give you the environment to discover at speed and at scale:

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### Virtual Twin of Chemistry: Your Passport to the Frontier of Materials Discovery

There’s an infinite universe of chemical possibilities out there – but until now, time and cost have limited your scientists’ ability to fully explore it.

By combining the Virtual Twin of Chemistry and Virtual Twins of Proteins & Molecules with science-backed AI, 3D UNIVERSES connect the virtual and real, equipping you with everything you need to push these frontiers, accelerating the rate at which new materials and their properties can be discovered and assessed.

How will a new ingredient change the properties of my existing formulations? Will this change my manufacturing processes? What will the emissions footprint be? And what will it all cost? **3D UNIVERSES puts the answers at your fingertips**

It’s not sustainability or compliance as an afterthought, but sustainability and compliance by design. With 3D UNIVERSES, you’re not left struggling to impose parameters on existing products – they have been intelligently integrated from the start, in a holistic V+R model of the whole production process.

Throughout all these processes, virtual companions simplify how you interact with these insights, helping identify potential issues like regulatory non-compliance or copyright violation, and then generate and develop potential solutions.

An AI partner that tells you when new formulations are non-compliant is useful. An AI partner that can then generate alternatives that are compliant, performant, and fully manufacturable? That’s transformative.

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### Virtual Twin of the Lab: A Science-Backed Environment Where Experiments Design Themselves

Your top minds are being wasted on mundane, routine tasks. Your high-quality technology sits idle. What if you could change that?

The Virtual Twin of the Lab, embedded within the connected 3D UNIVERSES, unites multiple smart lab functions – from Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) to Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to lab automation capabilities – into a single virtual world.

Within these connected world models, you can accelerate development timelines, auto-generate test procedures, and **free up your talent to focus on leading research, not filling in spreadsheets**. Remember, a smart lab doesn’t just capture data 95% faster; by eliminating human transcription errors, it can improve accuracy by 80% too.

Validating tests can be another time-consuming process. But what if you were working on a system that could automatically approve results that were within specifications, letting you focus only on out-of-spec results? With review-by-exception processes on 3D UNIVERSES you can do this, with the potential to speed up review processes by 50%.

**Human intelligence hasn’t disappeared: it’s been amplified**. Through 3D UNIVERSES, legacy knowledge and know-how – be it your team’s acquired skillsets and expertise or unstructured paper documents – can be captured, digitalized, and embedded deep into the very DNA of your lab workflows. All the while, virtual twins are continuously, iteratively augmented with real world data, for a continuous V+R loop of innovation.

This isn’t just about transforming the speed or scale of your operations – it’s about taking laboratory processes somewhere they’ve never been, carving out huge new areas of efficiency that just weren’t feasible before.

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### Virtual Twin of Therapeutics : Open the Door to a New World of Precision Medicine

Picture this: a person goes to a doctor, hands over their biometric data, and asks for a specific drug to be developed, precisely tailored for their specific condition and physical tolerances, all within the week.

It seems like fantasy. But by combining the Virtual Twin of Therapeutics with the Virtual Twin of the Human, drug developers are beginning to slash months from assessment times and move towards a world where this kind of patient-centered care is possible.

And this can also translate to more sustainable operations. For example, by using these solutions to build a secure, cloud-based environment where trial data could be safely uploaded, one customer was able to save its 15,000 participants nearly 7.6 million km of travel, reducing emissions associated with the trial by 73%.

**The future is about human-centricity**. 3D UNIVERSES help you make this transformation, moving away from process-driven models, and towards prescriptive models. Rather than designing a product, and then testing whether it hits given parameters, **you can set your parameters and let the 3D UNIVERSES generate candidates** – and that goes for everything from next-gen electrolytes to ultra-light airplane components.

Instead of asking “*how will this chemical perform?*” 3D UNIVERSES give you a space where you can ask “*how can I make a chemical that performs like this?*” – and then make it. It’s a new world, where you don’t sell the means, but the ends – not medicine or materials, but health outcomes or product performance.

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## Learn More About the Brands Making 3D UNIVERSES Possible

## BIOVIA Scientific AI

Generative Artificial Intelligence for scientific R&D advances innovation and helps scientists make better decisions.

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[   Learn more     ](/products/biovia/artificial-intelligence)

## Biotherapeutics Design and Optimization

Combine the Power of AI with Physics-Based Workflows for Next-Generation Biologics

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[   Learn more     ](/products/biovia/biotherapeutics-design-and-optimization)

## AI-Powered Formulation Development

Streamline Formula and Recipe Development Workflows on the **3D**EXPERIENCE Platform

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[   Learn more     ](/products/biovia/ai-powered-formulation-development)

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## Frequently Asked Questions

## How can AI improve scientific data management?

AI transforms scientific data management from a passive storage task into an active intelligence engine, directly addressing the bottleneck where scientists spend more time cleaning data than analyzing it. By leveraging tools like **ONE Lab** to automatically capture rich metadata at the source and **Pipeline Pilot** to harmonize disparate instrument formats into **FAIR** (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) standards, AI converts unstructured "dark data" into a structured, semantic knowledge graph. This not only enables powerful semantic search—allowing users to find concepts rather than just keywords—but also establishes the pristine data foundation necessary to train trustworthy **Generative AI** and **Virtual Twins**, ensuring that future innovations are built on verified scientific truth rather than noisy, unorganized inputs.

## How can AI be trusted in scientific research?

To build trust in scientific AI, solutions must move beyond standard probabilistic models by constraining them with three critical layers of validity: physics, context, and feedback. BIOVIA deploys **physics-based modeling** as an immediate guardrail, ensuring every AI-generated candidate obeys the fundamental laws of science rather than just statistical likelihood, effectively eliminating "hallucinations." We also ground the AI in the customer’s **proprietary data**, transforming generic algorithms into highly specialized expert systems that understand your specific history without exposing IP. Finally, we close the loop with an **Active Learning cycle** where real-world experimental results from the lab are fed back into the virtual model, creating a self-correcting system that becomes smarter and more predictive with every iteration.

## Are 3D UNIVERSES accessible to companies not currently using Dassault Systèmes technology?

Dassault Systèmes is dedicated to supporting businesses by ensuring seamless integration of 3D UNIVERSES within complex IT system and business infrastructures. The openness of the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform allows for flexibility, collaboration, and innovation, making it adaptable to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their existing technology stack. [To learn more](/3dexperience-platform/openness "3DEXPERIENCE Platform Openness").

## How can I learn more about 3D UNIVERSES?

If you’re an existing customer: Reach out to your usual client account team contact to schedule a dedicated meeting.

If you’re new or unsure: fill out [this form](/how-to-buy/contact-sales "Contact Sales") to contact us directly. If your company works with a reseller, feel free to mention their name in the comment section.

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## How can I get started with 3D UNIVERSES?

If your company is already using the **3D**EXPERIENCE Platform on the cloud, you already have the foundation to leverage the power of 3D UNIVERSES. No migration is needed. Some products will be enriched during the regular release cycles, while others will be created to account for the step change in value.

For organizations needing assistance to transition to the **3D**EXPERIENCE on the cloud, or to fully adopt all the 3D UNIVERSES functionalities, our Cloud Service team is here to help with a wide range of possibilities from migration to tailored high value-add solutions. It includes faster AI adoption, improved business performance, and more sustainable outcomes all provided as add-ons to the cloud annual subscription. [Learn more](/consulting-services-value-engagement/industry-services "Industry Services").

## What skillsets do I need to create or interact with content in 3D UNIVERSES?

If you're a Dassault Systèmes customer, you will already have the foundational data, skills and knowledge and know-how needed to create and benefit from 3D UNIVERSES. There's no need to overhaul your entire business systems or retrain your team. It's all about building on your existing knowledge, expertise, and data to unlock new possibilities. Transition from a file-based organization to a data-driven one, reducing time to market, increasing innovation and reducing operational costs whilst leveraging your virtual assets across the entire organization. And don’t worry: your virtual companions will guide you every step of the way, helping you explore 3D UNIVERSES and maximize its potential!

If you are not already familiar with Dassault Systèmes solutions, please refer to the “How can I get started with 3D UNIVERSES?” question of this FAQ.

## Is my data protected when used on 3D UNIVERSES?

Yes, your data is fully protected. 3D UNIVERSES operates on a cloud-based platform, offering flexibility, scalability, and global accessibility while prioritizing data security.

Dassault Systèmes implements robust security measures, including encryption, network monitoring, access controls, and threat detection systems. The company follows industry best practices and frameworks such as ISO 27001 and continuously updates its security protocols to mitigate emerging cyber threats.

Dassault Systèmes applies a data governance framework that ensures customer data used in AI systems is managed responsibly and in compliance with applicable regulations and contractual commitments.

AI capabilities are developed following privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles, with safeguards to protect confidentiality, integrity and intellectual property.

Personal data is processed only for clearly defined and legitimate purposes, in accordance with contractual terms and the company’s Data Privacy Policy.

Access is restricted, monitored and governed through robust information security controls certified under international standards.

Enjoy advanced AI-driven innovations in a secure and trusted environment.

## Are 3D UNIVERSES accessible to Small and Medium-sized businesses?

Absolutely! 3D UNIVERSES are designed to deliver virtual twin experiences for everyone and everything, empowering businesses of all sizes to enhance collaboration, drive innovation, and achieve sustainable, real-world results.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using the **3D**EXPERIENCE Platform on the cloud can start leveraging 3D UNIVERSES right away.

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