Osmo

Eventually, Osmo wants to be able to use its technology to teleport scents by digitizing a scent in one location and recreating an exact copy in another location, Wiltschko says.

They obtained thousands of molecules and descriptions of their scents according to master perfumers. 

They then fed that data into graph neural networks (GNNs), which fall under the umbrella of machine learning and use powerful algorithms to detect and analyze relationships between data points. 

At this point in the process, think of a social network where you can see people and how they are connected by friendships.

Wiltchko's team could then use the GNNs to help their AI model understand atoms, the bonds that connect them and how that molecular structure determines its odor, he says.