Whereas everyone is making an attempt to determine how synthetic intelligence will be leveraged throughout varied industries, French startup Osium AI has discovered an fascinating use case for AI — analysis and improvement in supplies science.
Based by Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder, the startup raised a $2.6 million seed spherical from Y Combinator, Singular, Kima Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Elevate Phiture and several other enterprise angels (Julien Chaumond, Thomas Clozel, Isaac Oates, Liz Wessel, Ebert Hera Group, Patrick Joubert, Sequoia Scout and Atomico Angel).
“Throughout my undergrad, I had performed analysis on supplies, notably within the discipline of cosmetics. And I had seen that supplies improvement methodologies have been nonetheless very guide, with a whole lot of trial and error and plenty of strategies relying primarily on instinct,” Najmark advised me.
After graduating, she joined Google X, the moonshot division of the enormous tech firm, and spent three years engaged on robotics and deep tech applied sciences. She additionally co-authored some patents.
“I used to be tech lead, so I actually had possession over end-to-end synthetic intelligence pipelines on robotics and system engineering topics,” she mentioned.
Her co-founder, Luisa Bouneder, spent three years engaged on information merchandise for industrial corporations, and within the supplies discipline particularly. She additionally seen firsthand that there was a whole lot of trial and error that was slowing down the event course of.
“In discussions with many industrial corporations, we additionally realized that there have been actually new challenges linked to sustainability, with the event of recent supplies: lighter supplies — supplies for aeronautics, for instance — but in addition extra sturdy, environment-friendly supplies, with optimized and greener manufacturing processes,” Najmark mentioned.
“It’s a topic that basically impacts all varieties of industries, together with development, packaging, aeronautics, aerospace, textiles and smartphones,” she added later within the dialog.
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So how does Osium AI truly work? It’s all about optimizing the suggestions loop between supplies formulation and testing utilizing a data-driven strategy. With the startup’s proprietary tech, industrial corporations can predict the bodily properties of recent supplies primarily based on a listing of standards. After that, Osium AI can even assist refine and optimize these new supplies whereas avoiding frequent errors concerned with trial and error.
A number of industrial corporations are already making an attempt out Osium AI’s resolution, and so they see the potential. “Our customers noticed that our resolution might allow them to speed up each the event and evaluation of supplies by an element of 10. So proper from the beginning of our testing, we noticed that we have been bringing worth,” Najmark mentioned.
In some ways, Osium AI is simply getting began. There are solely two individuals working for the corporate (the 2 co-founders), so the startup will quickly ramp up its crew and begin turning these first contracts into actual enterprise. The corporate is already speaking with 30 industrial corporations that would doubtlessly turn out to be shoppers.