# Virtual Companions: The Industrial AI Agents You Can Trust

AI reasoning, grounded in scientific reality, built into the **3D**EXPERIENCE® platform.

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) What Are Virtual Companions?

**Virtual Companions** are AI agents built into the **3D**EXPERIENCE AI-native agentic platform, designed to answer questions, provide guidance and use the platform's capabilities to execute tasks, all within your current workflow.

- **Virtual Companions are not generic AI.** They are trained on 40+ years of Dassault Systèmes’ industry expertise and on scientific models that give them an accurate understanding of how the real world actually works.
- **Embedded in virtual twins of your products, processes and organization,** Virtual Companions really understand how your business works. That means every answer they provide and every task they execute is grounded in your business context and relevant to your needs.
- **Outputs are trustworthy and actionable,** not plausible-sounding hallucinations. They are tailored to deliver value where it matters most:

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) More Projects at Once

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Faster 3D Modeling

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) More Time for Innovation

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) How Can Virtual Companions Support My Team?

Working side by side with a Virtual Companion gives every member of your team access to powerful, accurate industrial AI. Virtual Companions help designers design faster, researchers research more cost-effectively and decision-makers make decisions with increased confidence.

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Reveal

They reveal truths about your business hidden across scientific and operational data

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Teach

They teach you how to overcome complex problems and recommend next-best actions

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Work

They work directly on tasks across scientific, engineering and business workflows

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Meet Your Next Industrial AI Agents

Virtual Companions are dedicated to supporting one or more aspects of your operations, from business strategy to design engineering to scientific research. Users can access them individually or combine their expertise for 360° support across your value chain.

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(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) AURA: The Business Expert

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**AURA** is the strategist that never sleeps, the advisor that knows where to find every file the moment you need it, the analyst that can process new information in minutes, not days. When new business issues emerge, AURA accelerates the speed at which those issues can be understood and strategic decisions taken.

- **Embarking on a new project?** AURA turns complex program data into clear priorities, with risks assessed, mitigations proposed and timelines put in place.
- **Returning after time away?** AURA catches you up on what matters, so you can get up to speed in minutes without having to read everything you missed.
- **Searching for a solution that already exists?** AURA finds and surfaces the right knowledge in seconds, so your teams never have to answer the same question twice.
- **Walking into a big meeting?** AURA briefs you on the essentials, so you arrive fully prepared, even with just 30 minutes’ notice.

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[See how AURA works](/products/3dexperience/aura)

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(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) LEO: The Engineer

**LEO** is the engineer who can see projects from the inside-out, who can work across domains and apply any design requirement on product models with industry-standard precision. Working with LEO means having a team member who instantly understands the impact of design changes and can generate the exact components you need, as you need them.

- **Want to transform ideas into reality?** LEO can generate usable 3D CAD models from 2D sketches in seconds, with all tolerances and requirements in place.
- **Looking to master product assets?** LEO flags violations of parameters, regulations and constraints as you design.
- **Moving from concept to creation?** LEO validates parts are fully performant and manufacturable and can optimize manufacturing processes too.

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[See how LEO works](/products/catia/future-engineering-industrial-ai)

“Hi LEO, I’m looking for a way to solve…”

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) MARIE: The Scientist

What if you could have at your side a lab assistant with deep scientific expertise, constant access to your organization's scientific data and the ability to reason across disciplines. That is **MARIE**.

MARIE helps you understand complex phenomena, explore hypotheses and move from scientific questions to actionable outcomes across multiple domains.

- **Developing or reformulating a product?** MARIE can generate and evaluate a whole universe of formulations in a fraction of the time it would take manually.
- **Planning a new experiment?** MARIE knows how labs work and can design experiments, format and analyze results and suggest next steps.
- **Discovering a new therapeutic?** MARIE can reason across literature, biological and chemical data, generate and optimize candidate molecules by orchestrating complex computational workflows and summarize results for scientists to review.
- **Overwhelmed by years of scientific data?** MARIE extracts the most valuable insights from historical research and can summarize new results with total clarity.

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[See how MARIE works](/products/biovia/marie)

“MARIE, what would happen if I combined…”

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Unlock Your Virtual Companions With Blue Tokens

Let AURA, LEO and MARIE orchestrate your engineering, business and scientific processes from day one.

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(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) What Makes Dassault Systèmes Virtual Companions Different?

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Your IP remains yours

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Built on real industrial expertise

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Agents that actually act

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Verifiable outputs, grounded in physics

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Responsible data governance

(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Protected by industrial-grade security

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(3D UNIVERSE - Virtual Companions) Frequently Asked Question

What is a Virtual Companion?

AURA, LEO and MARIE are autonomous industrial agents natively integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. AURA covers business functions, LEO engineering and manufacturing, MARIE science. You express an intent in natural language - with a photo, scan, drawing, or file if needed - and they reason, plan and carry out the work, rather than simply answering it.

Virtual Companions cover the full **3D**EXPERIENCE portfolio: aerospace, automotive, life sciences, energy, consumer goods and more.

How are Virtual Companions different from a chatbot or a copilot?

The difference is a matter of degree of autonomy. A chatbot follows a predefined script and answers a question. Our Virtual Companions go further: they build their own plan of action on the fly—with no predefined workflow, act on your behalf and can run continuously, for example monitoring a production line 24/7.

Who can use a Virtual Companion?

Virtual Companions are designed for everyone using the [**3D**EXPERIENCE platform on the cloud](/cloud "3DEXPERIENCE Platform on the Cloud"). Whether working in business, engineering or scientific domains, users can collaborate with Virtual Companions to access expert knowledge, accelerate learning, improve decision-making and automate tasks while remaining in control.

Will you train your models with my data?

No. Your engineering data remains your property. Our Companions consult your patrimony (data, design rules, history) to assist you, but it is never used to train a shared model. If you choose to specialize a model with your data, the result lives exclusively within your own environment.

How can I trust the results Virtual Companions produce?

Every result is grounded in physics-based and science-based models—figures like stresses,tolerances and safety margins are calculated, not simply estimated by a statistical model. Every step of a Companion's reasoning is also documented and available for review, making the result verifiable and auditable.

What technology do Virtual Companions run on?

They rely on Industry World Models—proprietary AI models built on three components that work together:

- “Orchestration & reasoning”: LLMs orchestrate our agents and tools, breaking down complex industrial objectives into tasks coordinated across simulation, generative design and design-of-experiments engines.
- “Industrial knowledge”: decades of engineering expertise—design methods, regulatory standards, process methodologies—virtualized and made available at scale, so expert know-how doesn't leave with retirements.
- “Industrial world understanding”: rather than pattern recognition on web text, our models operate on an ecosystem of geometric and physical 3D models, sharing a common semantic layer that keeps outputs physically accurate and industrially usable.

The difference with a chatbot is simple: in industry, "plausible" isn't enough—an answer has to be correct, certifiable and reproducible. Industry World Models are built to keep everything they generate consistent with the real constraints of the industrial world, before anything physically exists.

Do Virtual Companions replace engineers?

No. Virtual Companions are designed to work side by side with engineers, augmenting their skills rather than replacing them. They can handle complex, repetitive and lower-value tasks with consistency and precision, while engineers remain in control. LEO, for example, can generate usable 3D CAD models, flag violations of parameters, regulations and constraints and validate whether parts are performant and manufacturable.

By accelerating these tasks, Virtual Companions help engineers learn faster, explore more possibilities and focus their time on creative, strategic and high-value work. The technology is a tool; responsibility for how it is used remains with the human engineer.

Where is my data hosted and how is it secured?

Your data is hosted in the geographic region and Cloud operating model selected for your service, based on your regulatory requirements, sovereignty expectations and sensitive data protection needs. Depending on the offering, this may include an International, Sovereign or Dedicated Cloud environment deployment.

The Companion’s intensive computations run in dedicated AI factories. All data exchanges are encrypted and protected through continuous network monitoring, identity and access controls and threat detection.

Where supported by the service architecture, data used for AI computation is processed transiently and is not retained in the AI factory after processing. These technical and architectural safeguards protect your data throughout its lifecycle. Applicable certifications and hosting conditions are specified for each service and region.

How do I unlock my Virtual Companions?

Virtual Companions run on Blue Tokens, which behave like credits and are consumed as users interact with them. Blue token consumption reflects the value delivered.

- Simple tasks: insights, annotations, basic sketches, require minimal effort and consume few Blue Tokens
- Complex tasks: detailed drawings, assembly structures, require greater computing resources and consume more Blue Tokens

This value-based model means Blue Tokens track real engineering productivity, not just usage.

Administrators of the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform can monitor Blue Token consumption in the Platform Management dashboard within the Members Control Center app.

Blue Tokens can be purchased:

1. On our [online store](/store/blue-tokens "Purchase your Blue Tokens to Unlock Your Virtual Companions").
2. Through your usual 3DS client account team or reseller
3. Or by contacting us through this [contact form](/how-to-buy/contact-sales "Contact Sales") (If your company works with a reseller, feel free to mention their name in the comment section.).

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