Today marks a milestone in how the industry works. Virtual Companions — Aura, Leo, and Marie — are now globally available on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform SaaS, in the Age of Industrial AI.

More than AI assistants, Virtual Companions are trusted experts who embody decades of industrial knowledge and know-how. They understand your intent, reason with Industry World Models grounded in the laws of physics and materials science, and orchestrate actions across the full lifecycle of your products — helping you see the invisible and achieve the impossible, before anything physically exists.

This is not about adding AI to your tools. It's a new kind of teamwork — humans and Virtual Companions co-creating, safely and at scale, on your most complex challenges.

The 3DEXPERIENCE Platform integrates  AI-driven Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences—to boost efficiency and accelerate innovation.

But what are a Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences?

Virtual Companions and Generative Experiences help you complete and automate activities reliably, from analyzing technical data, to generating deliverables, to solving complex engineering problems.

Virtual Companions

Virtual Companions are the AI-powered virtual workforce of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

They reason, plan, and act to address complex industrial problems and interact with you through natural conversations.

Each Virtual Companion has a specific mission, accomplished thru Competencies, and a distinct personality. 

Competencies are the ability, to perform a particular job or purpose. A Competency covers an entire domain of expertise, relying on more granular skills. Virtual Companions embody Competences. For example, AURA project management or LEO Mechanical Engineering.

There are three distinct Virtual Companions: 

	AURA - the Business Expert  Empowers any user by leveraging Enterprise Knowledge & Know-How
	LEO - The Engineer Effectively solve technical challenges in all engineering disciplines
	MARIE - The Scientist Bring Deep Scientific Knowledge to Engineers or Researchers

Generative Experiences

Generative Experiences leverage Industry Knowledge & Know-How to robotize industrial processes. 

They create or enrich Virtual Twins, while ensuring quality and compliance with industry and enterprise standards

Generative Experiences handle complex and repetitive tasks efficiently, improving the overall operational efficiency of users, teams, and organizations.

By taking on lower-value tasks, they enable users, teams, and organizations to to focus on creative, strategic, and high-value work, fostering innovation.