Data foundry firm Bound4 said it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with AI infrastructure and solution provider Open Network System to commercialise physical AI and large world models. The companies said separating high-quality physical data from large-scale computing infrastructure can limit efforts to narrow the simulation-to-real gap. They plan an integrated pipeline from data generation to model training, validation and deployment.

Manufacturing software company Dassault Systemes and AI computing company Nvidia said they will work together to expand industrial AI by integrating Dassault’s virtual twin technology with Nvidia’s computing platform, AI models and CUDA-X libraries. The companies announced the partnership on Feb. 3 at Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE World 2026 conference in Houston. They said the effort focuses on advancing physical AI and building AI factories using Nvidia infrastructure across three continents.