The Albany Gazette - The Industrial AI You Never Heard About is Powered by SMX and Its $111.5 Million Deal

Industrial environments are unforgiving. Temperatures fluctuate. Batches vary. Metals, plastics, and composites don't arrive in neat data packets. They arrive as physical materials with histories nobody can see. AI systems fail when that history isn't accurate. If a machine thinks it's working with one grade of metal when it's actually another, it makes the wrong decisions. If a recycling line can't distinguish high-value polymers from low-value ones, its entire model breaks down. AI needs clarity at the material level, not generic metadata sitting on a clipboard. SMX solves that by embedding molecular-level identifiers inside materials, giving AI something it's never had. Verified inputs.

This is why alliances with technology-forward partners have such an impact. REDWAVE in Austria connected SMX's identity system directly to high-speed industrial sorting lines. Suddenly, AI didn't have to guess what materials were entering the system. It knew. The same shift is emerging in Singapore, where the A*STAR collaboration ties SMX's physical identity layer to national-scale circularity data. The AI reading those streams gets the real composition, not the reported one. When AI sees the truth about materials, everything changes. Throughput increases. Error rates fall. Predictive maintenance becomes accurate. Automation stops being theoretical and starts being profitable.

And behind this entire industrial intelligence layer sits a capital architecture built for scale. SMX recently secured a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement that gives the Company the ability to expand these AI-enabled verification systems across multiple continents on its own terms. For industrial partners that want long-term stability behind the tech stack they're integrating into production lines, that kind of financial structure matters. It signals that SMX isn't a pilot project. It's becoming part of the infrastructure that modern AI will rely on.

Why AI Needs Verified Inputs

Industrial AI isn't flexible the way consumer AI is. You can't afford hallucinations when you're managing smelter temperatures or adjusting extrusion pressures. Every industrial process depends on the physical reality of the materials running through it. If you don't know the metallurgical profile of the alloy entering a furnace, no algorithm can correct the mistake. If you don't know the polymer identity flowing through a plastic reprocessing line, machine learning becomes guesswork. AI is only as smart as the inputs it receives.

That's the missing piece SMX provides. When identity is built directly into the material itself, AI doesn't have to operate on approximations. It gets clean signals. It knows the difference between similar alloys that behave differently under heat. It knows which plastics can be reprocessed efficiently and which ones can't. It knows how to route, blend, or sort materials in real time. That's how AI becomes a force multiplier for industrial operations instead of another system that introduces risk.

The CARTIF collaboration in Spain is demonstrating how SMX's identity layer performs in industrial R&D environments where materials go through multiple thermal and mechanical transformations. Even after those changes, the embedded identifiers remained readable. That persistence is exactly what AI systems need. They can analyze processes across full lifecycles without losing context. When materials carry their own truth, AI doesn't drift. It improves. Industrial automation stops being a patchwork of systems and starts acting like a unified intelligence built on verified data.

A New Era of Intelligent Industry

The companies moving into AI-driven manufacturing are discovering a simple rule. You can't automate uncertainty. When materials don't carry identity, every process built on top of them inherits the same flaws. AI becomes a tool for smoothing edges rather than for transforming operations. Companies that embed verification at the material level flip the model on its head. They build automation on foundations that can withstand scale.

This is where the broader ecosystem begins to shift. Insurers start reducing coverage costs because AI systems built on verified inputs reduce operational risk. Regulators start trusting industrial reporting because the data isn't self-generated. Manufacturers start running smarter lines that waste less energy and recover more usable material. Suppliers start differentiating themselves based on verified precision. Every node in the industrial chain becomes sharper because the information becomes real.

As AI moves deeper into heavy industry, the advantage will belong to the companies that treat verification as infrastructure. SMX turned identity into something materials carry instead of something companies claim. That's the breakthrough industrial AI needed. It finally has a way to engage with the physical world as accurately as it engages with data. The next evolution of manufacturing won't be defined by bigger AI models. It'll be defined by AI built on verified truth. SMX delivered that missing layer.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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