AI Penetrates Battery Industry... MS and Yumicoa Join Forces

Mathias Miedreich, CEO of Yumikoa (photo left), and Ralph Haupter, President of Microsoft EMEA region.

Efforts to accelerate the development of battery materials by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) are gaining momentum.

Yumicoa, a global secondary battery materials company headquartered in Belgium, announced on the 19th that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft (MS) to utilize AI in order to accelerate research on battery materials for electric vehicles. The two companies announced this agreement at the World Economic Forum (WEF, Davos Forum) held in Davos, Switzerland.

Through this partnership, Yumicoa expects to advance the launch timing and reduce costs by developing new battery materials using AI.

Yumicoa operates the "Battery Materials AI platform" utilizing MS's Azure OpenAI service. Yumicoa explained that it plans to create a customized AI environment capable of analyzing, synthesizing, and integrating decades of accumulated battery materials research and development data.

Mathias Miedreich, CEO of Yumicoa, said, "Through cooperation with MS, we will become a leading company that enables battery researchers to secure time, efficiency, and scalability by using AI-applied tools, while protecting intellectual property (IP) in key research and development (R&D) areas."