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Vishal Narayan

Google-backed startup working on giving computers sense of smell



A new AI startup is on the cusp of revolutionising the way we smell with $60 million in pocket from major industry players and a crack team of neuroscientists and machine learning experts to boot. 


Alex Wiltschko, a former Google researcher, is the CEO and co-founder of Osmo, a startup that aims to "enabling computers to do everything our noses can do. "


"It's been my passion to try to understand smell. It's this very powerful emotional sense, yet we know so little about it," Wiltschko told CNBC.


Wiltschko has a bachelor's degree in neuroscience from the University of Michigan and studied olfactory neuroscience at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in 2016.