Osmoai

What Is Osmoai?

OsmoAI combines artificial intelligence with the science of smell to digitize the human sense of smell. It reads odor molecules and converts them into digital signals, maps those signals to understand what makes each scent distinct, then converts the digital signals back into actual scents — turning atoms into bits and bits back into perceivable scents. The goal is to improve health and well-being through smell, while also streamlining fragrance creation by digitizing scents.

By capturing and recreating scents accurately, OsmoAI aims to influence emotions, enable new sensory experiences, and support well-being.

Who’s Behind Osmoai?

Osmoai was developed by a team at Google Research led by Alex Wiltschko, growing out of their work using machine learning to map the sense of smell. It officially launched with the mission of digitizing smell for a range of uses. The team includes experts in machine learning, sensory neuroscience, data science, and fine fragrance.

What Can You Do With Osmoai?

• Fragrance production: digitizes scents and supports an end-to-end process for capturing and reproducing them, making fragrance creation more precise.
• Healthcare: potential applications in diagnostics and early disease detection by analyzing smells.
• Well-being and therapy: supports therapeutic interventions, can elicit specific emotional responses, and trigger memories through scent.
• Molecule design: helps design molecules with specific functions, such as insect repellents.
• Odor mapping: contributes to a global map of odors for universal understanding of the sensory world.
• Other applications: threat detection, immersive experiences, and digital signal processing; the team is also developing the Osmograph and uses Graph Neural Networks in its research.