L’Oréal Groupe has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, positioning advanced generative AI at the heart of how the beauty giant designs products, serves consumers and creates content. Revealed at VivaTech 2026 in Paris, the partnership is framed as a “landmark collaboration” and a key step in L’Oréal’s Transformative AI roadmap.
A landmark AI partnership in beauty
According to the official communication, L’Oréal and OpenAI will work together across two main domains: AI powered consumer journeys toward agentic commerce and AI powered métiers from research and science to marketing. This means AI will not only support how shoppers discover and try products, but also how L’Oréal’s teams research ingredients, design formulas and build campaigns.
Asmita Dubey, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at L’Oréal Groupe, said that the collaboration “structurally supports this ambition to bring new solutions within beauty vertical.” The partnership builds on an internal AI push in which more…
than 73,000 employees have already been trained in generative AI and given access to tools like L’OréalGPT and personalized AI assistants. What changes for beauty consumers On the consumer side, the collaboration will surface AI-native beauty experiences directly inside ChatGPT and other OpenAI powered interfaces.
Virtual try on inside ChatGPT: Maybelline New York will bring its virtual makeup try on technology into ChatGPT, powered by L’Oréal’s ModiFace augmented reality, letting users test looks through conversational AI and move seamlessly toward purchase.
Smarter product discovery: In the US, L’Oréal will work with OpenAI to improve how users find products from brands like Lancôme and Kérastase via enhanced recommendation signals in ChatGPT.
AI powered advertising moments: Brands including SkinCeuticals, CeraVe and Garnier will join OpenAI’s global ChatGPT advertising pilot, reaching consumers at moments of clear intent…
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