Gurobi and GRID Partner to Advance AI Optimization in Infrastructure Sectors

Gurobi Optimization announced a new partnership with GRID, an AI optimization company specializing in infrastructure solutions. This collaboration merges GRID's AI and digital twin expertise with Gurobi's advanced solver technology to meet growing optimization demands in energy and social infrastructure sectors, aiming to deliver more efficient and sustainable operations. GRID, which transitioned from renewable energy to AI, was selected for NEDO's startup support program and successfully listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in 2023. The company leverages digital twins and deep learning to predict and optimize complex planning operations including power generation facility scheduling and transmission network routing, contributing to infrastructure efficiency and decarbonization.

Key partnership objectives include social infrastructure optimization through high-speed resolution of complex combinatorial optimization problems in power supply and demand, vessel scheduling, and transportation planning. The collaboration will focus on digital twin integration, enabling optimization simulation on digital twins that precisely replicate real-world operations. Proven application areas span power and energy, shipping and logistics, and urban transportation sectors. The partnership also aims to standardize skills by automating planning operations traditionally dependent on expert experience and intuition, while reducing costs through improved operational efficiency and reduced expenses.

Ryosuke Umeda, CTO of GRID Inc., stated that through the partnership with Gurobi, the company will further evolve prediction and optimization solutions to deliver greater value to customers. GRID will actively promote partnerships leveraging both companies' strengths toward the proliferation and practical application of mathematical optimization technology. Duke Perrucci, CEO of Gurobi Optimization, expressed confidence that with GRID as a partner, mathematical optimization technology can extend to more customers across social infrastructure and other critical industries. By combining GRID's advanced AI and machine learning technologies with Gurobi's optimization technology, the partnership can support creating more innovative solutions. GRID provides AI solutions optimizing operations across power and energy, logistics and supply chain, and urban transportation and smart cities sectors, with more information available at https://gridpredict.jp/en. Gurobi's decision intelligence technology enables customers to make optimal business decisions in seconds, identifying optimal solutions from trillions of possibilities across workforce scheduling, portfolio optimization, and supply chain design, with additional details at https://www.gurobi.com/.