What Orbital Materials does
Orbital Materials is the AI-for-advanced-materials business that operates under Orbital Industries. It builds foundation-model technology and “in-silico first” workflows to accelerate the discovery, simulation, and development of advanced materials that are later synthesized and evaluated in physical labs. The company’s flagship models include LINUS (its proprietary foundation model) and “Orb” (an AI model for simulating advanced materials), with subsequent extensions such as Orb-v3, OrbMol, and OrbMol-v2 released through Orbital Industries’ AI Research and announcements pages. Orbital Materials positions its approach as generative design plus physics-aware simulation to reduce the trial-and-error cycle time typical in materials R&D. In commercial applications, Orbital Materials/Orbital Industries uses its materials and simulation stack as inputs to products that target data-center decarbonization and efficiency, including Orbital IT, plus a cooling and refrigeration direction tied to its materials work. A key strategic platform element is CurieOS, described by Orbital as an AI operating system used across the company to orchestrate AI-driven discovery, lab work, and engineering workflows. The company has also partnered with Amazon Web Services to make its “Orb” model generally available to AWS customers via SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Marketplace, and later announced a licensing agreement with BASF ECMS for its CurieOS platform.