L’Oréal has expanded its AI partnership with NVIDIA, aimed at accelerating and redefining beauty innovation through AI-driven computational chemistry. 

By integrating NVIDIA ALCHEMI machine learning framework directly into its Research and Innovation (R&I) ecosystem, L’Oréal is creating a beauty and skincare AI engine, enabling breakthroughs in new formulation discovery by predicting how molecules will perform and interact at an atomic scale.

The partnership expands in a collaboration between the two companies applying AI to streamline L’Oréal’s marketing and advertising to R&D for new scientific discovery. 

Barbara Lavernos, Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Research, Innovation, and Technology at L’Oréal, said, 

“Our collaboration with NVIDIA brings definitively a new dimension into our L’Oréal Research labs. By applying AI-powered molecular simulation to our most proprietary actives, we are bridging atomic-scale discovery with real-world consumer benefit — accelerating the development of more effective, more sensorial and accessible products for consumers around the world.”

This enables L’Oréal to simulate ingredient performance and texture in a virtual environment, empowering L’Oréal scientists to test thousands of variables simultaneously, dramatically reducing the transition from laboratory concept to finished product. 

The outcome is a discovery process that is 100-times faster than traditional methods, resulting in a more agile innovation process that maximizes the potential of the group’s proprietary active ingredients for skin protection and preventing premature aging.

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