LG CNS has become the only domestic IT company to join a global collaboration for AI materials development, which includes major tech firms like NVIDIA and Meta. This initiative aims to support domestic material companies in their AI transformation efforts.
On July 27, LG CNS announced its selection as a founding member of the 'AI Materials Foundry,' a global consortium led by the UK-based AI startup CuspAI. The AI Materials Foundry is a global alliance of companies and research institutions in AI, chemistry, materials, and computing infrastructure, focused on driving innovation in new material development using AI.
The consortium includes 48 global companies and research institutions, such as NVIDIA, Meta, and AMD, along with top firms in the new materials sector like 3M and Merck.
CuspAI, headquartered in London, has developed a platform that combines AI and materials science to accelerate the new materials development process. Jeffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2024, serves as an advisor to the startup, which recently secured an investment of 680 billion won, valuing the company at 4 trillion won. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is among the key investors.
LG CNS plans to utilize CuspAI's Agentic AI platform to support companies in advanced industries such as semiconductors, chemicals, and energy in discovering new materials. By inputting the desired conditions and properties of materials, the AI generates and validates candidate materials based on learned experimental data. Finnish chemical company Kemira has used this platform to reduce a development timeline from several years to just six months, exploring approximately 300 trillion molecular structures to identify 20 new material candidates.
As a platform delivery partner, LG CNS will handle everything from material data processing to interpreting validation results, as well as platform operation and maintenance. This allows client companies to conduct new material development projects continuously without needing dedicated AI personnel. The CuspAI platform isolates and manages client data on dedicated servers, ensuring that it is not reused for AI model training, and clients retain ownership of any patents related to new materials.
Jang Min-yong, head of LG CNS's Chemical and Battery Division, stated, "Enhancing cost and time efficiency in new material development is directly linked to a company's core competitiveness. We will fulfill our role as an AX partner to help domestic manufacturing and material companies leverage a world-class AI-based new material research ecosystem to achieve tangible business results early on."
* This article has been translated by AI.
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