By Jennifer Weil
Publication Date: 2026-03-17 18:50:00
PARIS — L’Oréal has expanded its partnership with Nvidia to create a beauty and skin care AI engine allowing for new, rapid formulation discovery.
L’Oréal has a strong internal knowledge and database on skin and hair biology — over 1 terabyte of data within the group, which counts 4,000 scientists.
“We need partners outside that can help us with AI platforms,” said Guive Balooch, global vice president of tech and open innovation at L’Oréal. Such collaborators can use the group’s expertise to help target new molecules faster.
Already L’Oréal has worked with companies such as Chinese start-up Veminsyn and San Diego-based Debut. “We want to more and more develop the infrastructure to do that within the labs,” Balooch said. “This is where we’re starting partnerships with people like Nvidia.”
In June 2025, L’Oréal and Nvidia announced they would collaborate on bringing next-generation AI to beauty. Through the tie-in, L’Oréal and its partner ecosystem planned to leverage the Nvidia AI Enterprise platform for speedy development and deployment of AI. The first focus was on digital and marketing, involving new and 3D designs for packaging and products, which could be done in a creative way at speed.
“Now what we want is to be able to embed that in our R&I to be able to find and discover the next molecules faster than ever before,” Balooch said. “We live at a pace now where the biologists and chemists no…
