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For decades, scent remained computing's final analog frontier.

Now Osmo has done what many thought impossible: digitized smell. By training AI to decode the relationship between molecular structure and human perception, the New Jersey startup built the world's first olfactory intelligence platform, turning scent into searchable, programmable data.

Fortune's Allie Garfinkle visited Osmo to learn more about how the $130 million startup is using AI to bottle up smells.
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00:00Our mission is to give computers a sense of smell.
00:03For a century, we've been turning the world into data.
00:06Sight became pixels. Sound became waveforms.
00:10But smell, the oldest scents no machine could digitize.
00:14Until now.
00:16For the first time ever, a teleported smell.
00:18With a single prompt, this startup says they can create a scent in just 48 hours.
00:24Completely reversing the model of how scent is designed and delivered.
00:27A little bit fluffy, velvety.
00:30We see a lot of textures in Perfumer A2.
00:32But fragrance is just the beginning.
00:35The final frontier is using scent in the way that dogs can use scent to understand wellness or illness.
00:42This AI startup has raised $130 million to turn scent into data.
00:48Perfume now, disease detection down the line.
00:51So what happens when you give a computer a nose?
00:55We're going to smell the whole world.
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