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Platform

Developing new advanced materials & climate technologies takes years of trial and error in the lab.
We believe AI can replace trial and error with rational design, taking technologies from discovery to deployment faster than with human input alone.
Technology Development Pipeline
By using AI we learn faster and earlier - accelerating from discovery to deployment.

Engineer in-silico, materialize in reality

Design

When prompted with a desired set of properties, our generative AI, LINUS, reasons through the universe of possible chemistries to design a material from scratch.

Our researchers then use our simulation model, Orb, to simulate the material under realistic process conditions.

Finally, we synthesise, test and scale our materials under realistic process conditions at our Princeton R&D facility.

Deploy

After design, our engineering team integrates these materials into end-to-end process technologies. This includes optimized reactor design, piping, and process flows to maximize overall chemical process performance.

At our Princeton prototyping site, we fabricate and pilot these end-to-end systems, preparing them for deployment.

Orb
The World’s Leading AI Model for
Simulating Advanced Materials

We've trained the world’s fastest and most accurate AI model for simulating advanced materials, outcompeting proprietary models from Google and Microsoft. Orb is open-source - our contribution to accelerating scientific discovery.

Resources
Press Release

Orbital Materials

Orbital Materials to Advance Materials and Climate Technologies with AI, Using Investment from NVentures‍

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EVENT

Orbital Materials

Join our Seminar Series: Unlocking the future of AI in Materials Science

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BLOG

Technical Introduction to Orb

Technical Introduction to Orb - our AI-based universal interatomic potential, designed for simulating advanced materials at scale.

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PRESS RELEASE

Press Release

Introducing ‘Orb’ - the world’s fastest and most accurate AI model for simulating advanced materials

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BLOG

Blog

Today we’ve open-sourced ‘Orb’, the state of the art AI model for simulating advanced materials.

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NEWS

Dezeen

Orbital Materials combines ChatGPT with physics to invent "transformational materials"

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NEWS

Sifted

‘It needed to be different from DeepMind’ — why this founder left the world’s top AI lab

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NEWS

Bloomberg

DeepMind Alum Wants to Use AI to Speed the Development of Green Materials

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NEWS

Tech Round

Orbital Materials, The Startup That Uses GenAI To Discover Green Materials

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NEWS

Read Write

Suswati Basu: Orbital Materials uses AI to create climate-friendly materials

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NEWS

TechCrunch

This startup is using AI to discover new materials

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NEWS

Carbon Pulse

Green materials developer appoints former Climeworks head of science as advisor

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NEWS

Carbon Herald

Ex-Climeworks CSO Joins As Advisor For Orbital Materials

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NEWS

Sifted

21 generative AI startups to watch, according to investors

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Careers

Industry expertise, meets AI

At Orbital we're pioneering the future of advanced materials development, AI and chemical engineering.

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workers on their computers working
From pioneering large language models, to scaling materials to thousands of tons, Orbital is led by scientists and engineers with a love of making new things.
Why our team work at orbital

I am thrilled to apply AI methods to real-world scientific challenges, particularly in addressing climate change at Orbital. The close collaboration between AI researchers, computational chemists, engineers, and experimentalists accelerates the discovery of new materials at an unprecedented pace.

Zhiyi Li
AI Researcher ex. GraphCore

I am excited to be working on a team that is accelerating materials discovery and innovation in a new way. At its core Orbital is not only addressing the next generation of materials challenges but it's fundamentally changing the way experimental and computational chemists work together.

Sam Boorse
VP Synthetic Chemistry ex.Global Director R&D @ Zeochem

Machine Learning is the most exciting technology of the 21st century. Taking the next step in using powerful neural networks to model and predict the physical world, with real impact in materials development, is using this technology in its most impactful domain.

Mark Neumann
Head of Machine Learning ex. AI2

I’m inspired by Orbital's enormous potential to develop solutions for this generation’s great challenge: climate change. At Orbital, we have the unique potential to accelerate the pace of innovation, drawing upon our interdisciplinary team of chemists, engineers, and AI researchers.

Tom Mcdonald
CSO ex. Founder of Mosaic Materials

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