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Orbital Industries published an engineering blog arguing for “code mode” vs MCP tool-calling for agent runtime cost/latency, using an internal CurieOS workflow example.
Orbital Industries published a blog on modular datacenter construction and claimed labor/cost/time differences (citing SemiAnalysis figures).
Orbital Industries introduced CurieOS as an operating system for agentic AI in science and engineering and described why it was built for an AI industrial company co-designing materials through to manufacturing.
Orbital Industries announced an agreement with BASF ECMS to license CurieOS for AI-enabled discovery and engineering of materials for automotive emissions catalyst innovation.
Orbital Industries announced a $50M Series B led by Plural, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Radical Ventures, Compound, and Fly Ventures, to scale its AI engine and data center hardware products.
Orbital Industries launched Orbital IT as a new brand dedicated to AI data center infrastructure, describing the unification of advanced materials, hardware engineering, and manufacturing.
Orbital Industries announced a multi-year partnership with AWS to develop data center decarbonization and efficiency technologies using its AI platform; the announcement also references Orb availability via AWS services.
Orbital Industries announced the open-source release of Orb and described performance claims (including 5x faster for large-scale simulations) and how Orb is built on its foundation model LINUS.
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Orbital Industries open-sources Orb, which it describes as an AI model for simulating advanced materials; it states Orb is more accurate than leading models from Google and Microsoft and is 5x faster for large-scale simulations.
Orb is described by Orbital Industries as being built upon Orbital’s proprietary foundation model called LINUS.
CurieOS is Orbital Industries’ “AI operating system” used across materials discovery, hardware engineering, and lab/instrument-connected workflows; it is described as coordinating agents via a shared context graph and workflow orchestration.
Orbital IT is Orbital Industries’ commercial brand for AI data center infrastructure, describing modular data center infrastructure engineered in a factory environment and designed around customer site constraints and performance targets.
Orbital Industries describes a two-phase direct-to-chip cooling approach and discusses how CurieOS is used to co-design materials and hardware layers across novel non-PFAS heat-transfer fluids and cold-plate/manifold designs.
Orbital Industries announced BASF ECMS will deploy CurieOS for AI-enabled catalyst/material innovation for automotive emissions applications.
BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS)Orbital Industries launched Orbital IT as a dedicated brand for AI data center infrastructure.
Orbital Industries announced a multi-year partnership with AWS to use its AI platform for decarbonization and efficiency technologies; it also states Orb is generally available via AWS channels.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Orbital Industries announced the open-source release of Orb for simulating advanced materials and described its performance relative to other models.