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Orbital Industries, a startup focused on using AI to discover and manufacture advanced materials, has secured $50 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Plural, with participation from Nvidia's venture arm and other existing investors. This capital will be used to scale the commercial deployment of their data center-focused products, expand their team, and develop their AI platform for broader industrial applications. Orbital's proprietary AI model, Orb, is designed for simulating atomic behavior and is claimed to be significantly faster and more efficient than competing models from major tech companies. AI

Researchers have developed a multimodal diffusion model to enhance data from electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) microscopy by integrating polarized light (PL) data. This approach significantly accelerates data collection, allowing for high-quality results with only a quarter of the usual EBSD data and corrupted PL data. The model demonstrates strong generalization capabilities on real-world data, improving objectives like grain boundary prediction, super-resolution, and denoising. AI