Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim's AI Platform Revolutionizes Chemical Synthesis with 71% Success Rate

January 19, 2026
Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim's AI Platform Revolutionizes Chemical Synthesis with 71% Success Rate
  • The platform leverages 2,498 individual AI experts, each representing knowledge from a leading practitioner in a specific chemistry domain, enabling expert-driven guidance across diverse reaction spaces.

  • These experts are organized within Voronoi-clustered spaces and run on the Llama-3.1-8B-instruct architecture to cover a wide range of transformations.

  • Key affiliations include Yale University and Boehringer-Ingelheim, with corresponding authors Tim Newhouse and Victor Batista among the principal contributors.

  • Contributors span Yale and Boehringer-Ingelheim, including Victor Batista, Timothy Newhouse, Haote Li, and Sumon Sarkar, with funding from Boehringer-Ingelheim and the National Science Foundation Engines Development Award.

  • MOSAIC is an AI-powered platform at Yale, developed with Boehringer Ingelheim, that generates experimental procedures for chemical synthesis, including compounds that do not yet exist.

  • It operates as a computational framework that taps into millions of reaction protocols to enable AI-assisted chemical synthesis.

  • The article notes that this is a pre-publication manuscript and emphasizes early access to findings while further edits are underway before final publication.

  • MOSAIC provides measurable uncertainty estimates to indicate how closely a user’s request fits an expert’s domain, helping prioritize experiments.

  • The system aims to turn knowledge overload into actionable lab procedures by enabling researchers to consult multiple niche experts rather than relying on a single large model.

  • The approach enables discovery of over 35 novel compounds across pharmaceuticals, materials, agrochemicals, and cosmetics through AI-guided synthesis.

  • MOSAIC delivers reproducible and executable experimental protocols with confidence metrics, reporting an overall experimental success rate of about 71%.

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