L’Oréal and Nvidia Expand AI Partnership to R&D

L’Oréal has expanded its partnership with artificial intelligence giant Nvidia and will integrate the Nvidia Alchemi machine learning framework into its research and innovation (R&I) ecosystem.

This expanded partnership widens their initial collaboration announced last year to use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline L’Oréal’s marketing and advertising.

L’Oréal says it will create an AI engine that will predict how molecules will perform and interact at an atomic scale, simulating ingredient performance and texture in a virtual environment in which thousands of variables can be tested simultaneously, dramatically reducing the transition from laboratory concept to finished product. The outcome, according to L’Oréal, is a discovery process that is 100x 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.”

Focused Areas of Skin Science Research

The initiative is currently focused on two key pillars of skin science: photoprotection and skin tone management, according to L’Oréal.

“Our collaboration with Nvidia brings definitively a new dimension into our L’Oréal Research labs,” said Barbara Lavernos, deputy chief executive officer in charge of research, innovation and technology at L’Oréal. ” 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.” 

L’Oréal presented its “next-generation predictive formulation science” today during the NVIDIA GTC AI Conference in San Jose.