Aionics, Inc. Named Winner in “Small and Mighty” Category of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards
14 Mayo 2024 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
From a solution to repurpose cold plasma to
treat seeds to 3D printed living seawalls, the eighth annual awards
honor new and inspiring solutions to the most daunting challenges
of today.
The winners of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards
were announced today, highlighting fresh sustainability
initiatives, cutting-edge AI developments, ambitious pursuits of
social equity, and other creative projects that are helping mold
the world.
Aionics was selected for its pioneering work in using artificial
intelligence and quantum mechanical simulation to design better
batteries. Since its founding in 2020 by Drs. Austin Sendek, Venkat
Viswanathan, and Lenson Pellouchoud, Aionics has led the charge in
building “AI scientists” capable of interpreting battery
performance data with superhuman intelligence and using these
insights to dream up brand new battery materials. Last year,
Aionics announced a major partnership with Cellforce Group, the
battery manufacturing subsidiary of Porsche, and just last month
was named to the CB Insights 2024 “AI 100” list recognizing the 100
most promising private AI companies.
This year’s World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 50 winners, 127
finalists, and 172 honorable mentions—with health, education,
energy, and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast
Company editors and reporters selected winners from a pool of more
than 1,300 entries across climate, social justice, wellness,
politics, technology, corporate social responsibility, and more.
Several new categories were added this year, including beauty and
fashion, health products, health services, materials, and science
and technology. The 2024 awards feature entries from across the
globe, including the Republic of Korea, Brazil, and Madagascar.
Fast Company’s Spring 2024 issue (on newsstands May 21, 2024)
will unveil some of the world’s most creative minds and pioneering
organizations that are seeking to disrupt the status quo. The
solutions cover everything from renewable energy storage and waste
in the fashion industry to a building made entirely from recycled
concrete and a fridge that’s solar-powered and designed to run off
the grid.
Aionics’ mission is as bold as it is broad: to accelerate global
decarbonization by leveraging advances in AI-guided materials
science. “There are two parallel revolutions happening right now,”
said Chief Executive Officer Dr. Austin Sendek. “One is the
exponential trend in high-performance computing power and
efficiency; the other is the exponential trend in AI model
performance. At Aionics, we combine these by first using
high-performance computing resources to simulate quantum-level
phenomena in battery materials, and then using those insights to
train AI models to search through the entire corpus of known and
hypothetical materials to find the proverbial needle in the
haystack. With new advancements in generative AI including large
language models, this process only becomes faster, easier, and more
accurate.”
“I was struck this year by the global sweep of the honorees,”
says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “It’s endlessly
inspiring to see how the world is coming together to devise
inventive solutions to our most challenging problems. We need ideas
from everywhere, and this year’s World Changing Ideas Awards are an
extraordinary encapsulation of the innovation and creativity that
is so abundant around the globe.”
ABOUT AIONICS, INC.: Aionics, Inc. was founded in 2020
with the mission of accelerating the development of materials for a
zero carbon world. Aionics, Inc. co-innovates with leading
companies in electric vehicles, aviation, grid-scale storage, and
green manufacturing. It is backed by leading technology investors
including UP Partners and Trousdale Ventures. To learn more visit
aionics.io.
ABOUT THE WORLD CHANGING IDEAS AWARDS: World Changing
Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is
focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and
bold concepts that make the world better. Judges choose winners,
finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the
potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and
fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with
great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more
people to work on solving the problems that affect us all.
ABOUT FAST COMPANY
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the
vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging
the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future
of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is
published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister
publication Inc., and can be found online at
www.fastcompany.com.
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