Osium AI uses artificial intelligence to speed up materials innovation

French startup Osium AI has raised $2.6 million in seed funding to tackle a unique use case for artificial intelligence: research and development in materials science. Co-founders Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder noticed the manual and time-consuming nature of materials development, with a heavy reliance on trial and error. Osium AI aims to optimize this process by using a data-driven approach to predict the physical properties of new materials and refine and optimize them. The startup’s solution has already garnered interest from industrial companies, with the potential to accelerate material development and analysis by a factor of 10. With plans to grow its team and secure more clients, Osium AI is poised to make a significant impact in various industries, including construction, packaging, aeronautics, aerospace, textiles, and smartphones.