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Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
VERSES® 'Digital Brain' Featured in WIRED and Popular Mechanics
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS; OTCQB: VRSSF) ('VERSES' or the 'Company') a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation agentic software systems today announced important third-party recognition of its digital-brain architecture, AXIOM, following features in WIRED and Popular Mechanics and public acknowledgement from ARC-AGI benchmark creator François Chollet. WIRED: A 'very original' path to AGI In WIRED 's feature ' A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World ,' senior writer Will Knight describes AXIOM as 'a new machine-learning approach that draws inspiration from how the human brain models and learns about the world.' He adds that it 'offers an alternative to the artificial neural networks dominant in modern AI' and highlights its 'impressive efficiency' across multiple video-game environments. François Chollet—Keras inventor, TIME 100 AI honoree, and creator of the ARC-AGI benchmark—told WIRED : 'The general goals of the [VERSES] approach and some of its key features track with what I see as the most important problems to focus on to get to AGI… The work strikes me as very original… We need more people trying out new ideas away from the beaten path of large language models.' Chollet also posted on acknowledging that active inference—as demonstrated by AXIOM, where agents act to reduce uncertainty by aligning their internal world models with reality—is 'badly missing from the deep-learning era' and '100% correct' New Benchmarks For AGI - Gameworlds Chollet's well known benchmark for AGI known as ARC-AGI—which measures progress toward general intelligence—tests AI systems on spatial-reasoning tasks and is used by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others as the industry's gold standard. ARC-AGI 3, the next installment of this benchmark, is expected to deploy 100+ novel game worlds to test a new set of capabilities. We believe that this reflects the AI community's move from static Q&A to interactive environments, where games serve as the medium to force agents to explore, form hypotheses, and spontaneously generalize. AXIOM's Active-Inference engine has already demonstrated these skills: it learns unfamiliar worlds, plans by minimizing uncertainty, and adapts in real time— using its cognitive architecture. On the Gameworld 10K benchmark, AXIOM outperformed Google DeepMind's DreamerV3 by up to 60%, used 99% less compute, and learned 39× faster as validated by Soothsayer Analytics, in June. Popular Mechanics: 'This breakthrough could redefine intelligence forever.' Popular Mechanics also published a feature article titled ' This AI Model Can Mimic Human Thought—And May Even Be Capable of Reading Your Mind ,' calling Genius—VERSES' product suite powered by AXIOM— 'a level up from existing AI' and noting that Genius agents run on watts instead of gigawatts and can operate from a laptop battery rather than the cloud. The article begins: 'AI is learning to think like us, bridging the worlds of biology and technology. This breakthrough could redefine intelligence forever.' 'AXIOM was built for interactive intelligence—exploring, planning, and learning in real time,' said VERSES CEO Gabriel René. 'Active Inference is designed to master new worlds faster, with far less compute and human-like adaptability—bringing us closer to truly human-level AI and, we believe, positioning VERSES as the market leader.' Notes to editors About VERSES VERSES® is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modeled after the wisdom and genius of Nature. Designed around first principles found in science, physics and biology, our flagship product, Genius,™ is an agentic enterprise intelligence platform designed to generate reliable domain-specific predictions and decisions under uncertainty. Imagine a Smarter World that elevates human potential through technology inspired by Nature. Learn more at , LinkedIn and X . On behalf of the Company Gabriel René, Founder & CEO, VERSES AI Inc. Press Inquiries: press@ Investor Relations Inquiries James Christodoulou, Chief Financial Officer IR@ , +1(212)970-8889
Associated Press
2 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
VERSES® 'Digital Brain' Featured in WIRED and Popular Mechanics
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS; OTCQB: VRSSF) ('VERSES' or the 'Company') a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation agentic software systems today announced important third-party recognition of its digital-brain architecture, AXIOM, following features in WIRED and Popular Mechanics and public acknowledgement from ARC-AGI benchmark creator François Chollet. WIRED: A 'very original' path to AGI In WIRED 's feature ' A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World,' senior writer Will Knight describes AXIOM as 'a new machine-learning approach that draws inspiration from how the human brain models and learns about the world.' He adds that it 'offers an alternative to the artificial neural networks dominant in modern AI' and highlights its 'impressive efficiency' across multiple video-game environments. François Chollet—Keras inventor, TIME 100 AI honoree, and creator of the ARC-AGI benchmark—told WIRED: 'The general goals of the [VERSES] approach and some of its key features track with what I see as the most important problems to focus on to get to AGI… The work strikes me as very original… We need more people trying out new ideas away from the beaten path of large language models.' Chollet also posted on acknowledging that active inference—as demonstrated by AXIOM, where agents act to reduce uncertainty by aligning their internal world models with reality—is 'badly missing from the deep-learning era' and '100% correct' New Benchmarks For AGI - Gameworlds Chollet's well known benchmark for AGI known as ARC-AGI—which measures progress toward general intelligence—tests AI systems on spatial-reasoning tasks and is used by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others as the industry's gold standard. ARC-AGI 3, the next installment of this benchmark, is expected to deploy 100+ novel game worlds to test a new set of capabilities. We believe that this reflects the AI community's move from static Q&A to interactive environments, where games serve as the medium to force agents to explore, form hypotheses, and spontaneously generalize. AXIOM's Active-Inference engine has already demonstrated these skills: it learns unfamiliar worlds, plans by minimizing uncertainty, and adapts in real time— using its cognitive architecture. On the Gameworld 10K benchmark, AXIOM outperformed Google DeepMind's DreamerV3 by up to 60%, used 99% less compute, and learned 39× faster as validated by Soothsayer Analytics, in June. Popular Mechanics: 'This breakthrough could redefine intelligence forever.' Popular Mechanics also published a feature article titled ' This AI Model Can Mimic Human Thought—And May Even Be Capable of Reading Your Mind,' calling Genius—VERSES' product suite powered by AXIOM— 'a level up from existing AI' and noting that Genius agents run on watts instead of gigawatts and can operate from a laptop battery rather than the cloud. The article begins: 'AI is learning to think like us, bridging the worlds of biology and technology. This breakthrough could redefine intelligence forever.' 'AXIOM was built for interactive intelligence—exploring, planning, and learning in real time,' said VERSES CEO Gabriel René. 'Active Inference is designed to master new worlds faster, with far less compute and human-like adaptability—bringing us closer to truly human-level AI and, we believe, positioning VERSES as the market leader.' Notes to editors About VERSES VERSES® is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modeled after the wisdom and genius of Nature. Designed around first principles found in science, physics and biology, our flagship product, Genius,™ is an agentic enterprise intelligence platform designed to generate reliable domain-specific predictions and decisions under uncertainty. Imagine a Smarter World that elevates human potential through technology inspired by Nature. Learn more at LinkedIn and X. On behalf of the Company Gabriel René, Founder & CEO, VERSES AI Inc. James Christodoulou, Chief Financial Officer [email protected], +1(212)970-8889
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
VERSES® 'Digital Brain' Featured in WIRED and Popular Mechanics
New AXIOM model captures mainstream headlines and industry acclaim VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS; OTCQB: VRSSF) ('VERSES' or the 'Company') a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation agentic software systems today announced important third-party recognition of its digital-brain architecture, AXIOM, following features in WIRED and Popular Mechanics and public acknowledgement from ARC-AGI benchmark creator François Chollet. WIRED: A 'very original' path to AGI In WIRED's feature 'A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World,' senior writer Will Knight describes AXIOM as 'a new machine-learning approach that draws inspiration from how the human brain models and learns about the world.' He adds that it 'offers an alternative to the artificial neural networks dominant in modern AI' and highlights its 'impressive efficiency' across multiple video-game environments. François Chollet—Keras inventor, TIME 100 AI honoree, and creator of the ARC-AGI benchmark—told WIRED: 'The general goals of the [VERSES] approach and some of its key features track with what I see as the most important problems to focus on to get to AGI… The work strikes me as very original… We need more people trying out new ideas away from the beaten path of large language models.' Chollet also posted on acknowledging that active inference—as demonstrated by AXIOM, where agents act to reduce uncertainty by aligning their internal world models with reality—is 'badly missing from the deep-learning era' and '100% correct' New Benchmarks For AGI - Gameworlds Chollet's well known benchmark for AGI known as ARC-AGI—which measures progress toward general intelligence—tests AI systems on spatial-reasoning tasks and is used by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others as the industry's gold standard. ARC-AGI 3, the next installment of this benchmark, is expected to deploy 100+ novel game worlds to test a new set of capabilities. We believe that this reflects the AI community's move from static Q&A to interactive environments, where games serve as the medium to force agents to explore, form hypotheses, and spontaneously generalize. AXIOM's Active-Inference engine has already demonstrated these skills: it learns unfamiliar worlds, plans by minimizing uncertainty, and adapts in real time— using its cognitive architecture. On the Gameworld 10K benchmark, AXIOM outperformed Google DeepMind's DreamerV3 by up to 60%, used 99% less compute, and learned 39× faster as validated by Soothsayer Analytics, in June. Popular Mechanics: 'This breakthrough could redefine intelligence forever.' Popular Mechanics also published a feature article titled 'This AI Model Can Mimic Human Thought—And May Even Be Capable of Reading Your Mind,' calling Genius—VERSES' product suite powered by AXIOM—'a level up from existing AI' and noting that Genius agents run on watts instead of gigawatts and can operate from a laptop battery rather than the cloud. The article begins: 'AI is learning to think like us, bridging the worlds of biology and technology. This breakthrough could redefine intelligence forever.' 'AXIOM was built for interactive intelligence—exploring, planning, and learning in real time,' said VERSES CEO Gabriel René. 'Active Inference is designed to master new worlds faster, with far less compute and human-like adaptability—bringing us closer to truly human-level AI and, we believe, positioning VERSES as the market leader.' Notes to editors The Wired article can be found at: The Popular Mechanics article can be found at: Soothsayer Analytics have validated the Axiom model. Further details can be found at: About VERSES VERSES® is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modeled after the wisdom and genius of Nature. Designed around first principles found in science, physics and biology, our flagship product, Genius,™ is an agentic enterprise intelligence platform designed to generate reliable domain-specific predictions and decisions under uncertainty. Imagine a Smarter World that elevates human potential through technology inspired by Nature. Learn more at LinkedIn and X. On behalf of the CompanyGabriel René, Founder & CEO, VERSES AI Inquiries: press@ Relations InquiriesJames Christodoulou, Chief Financial Officer IR@ +1(212)970-8889
The Market Online
03-06-2025
- Business
- The Market Online
Verses' digital brain beats Google's top AI at 'Gameworld 10k' Atari challenge
Verses AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) announced a major leap forward in artificial intelligence with the unveiling of its new digital brain architecture, codenamed AXIOM In a head-to-head showdown, AXIOM outperformed DreamerV3 across ten diverse, arcade-style environments designed to test real-world generalization with minimal data These results suggest that AXIOM could represent a paradigm shift in AI development—offering not only better performance but also dramatically lower computational and financial costs Verses AI stock (CBOE:VERS) last traded at C$5.70 Cognitive computing company Verses AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) announced a major leap forward in artificial intelligence with the unveiling of its new digital brain architecture, codenamed AXIOM (Active eXpanding Inference with Object-centric Models). Based on the neuroscience-inspired principle of Active Inference, AXIOM has demonstrated performance that significantly surpasses Google DeepMind's DreamerV3—one of the most advanced AI models known for its generalization capabilities in simulated environments. In a head-to-head showdown using the Gameworld 10K benchmark—a next-generation successor to the Atari 100K Challenge—AXIOM outperformed DreamerV3 across ten diverse, arcade-style environments designed to test real-world generalization with minimal data. AXIOM: Better, faster, cheaper (and smaller) Verses' AXIOM not only delivered superior gameplay performance but did so with efficiency and simplicity. Unlike traditional AI models that rely on neural networks, backpropagation, and gradient descent, AXIOM uses a novel object-centric approach rooted in Active Inference. Performance highlights (AXIOM vs DreamerV3): 60 per cent better gameplay (Normalized Score: 77 vs 48) 7.6x more sample-efficient (3,175 steps vs 24,207) 39x faster GPU runtime (~10 minutes vs ~370 minutes) 12x cheaper to run (Estimated GPU cost: $0.66 vs $25.54) 400x smaller model size (0.95M vs 420M parameters) These results suggest that AXIOM could represent a paradigm shift in AI development—offering not only better performance but also dramatically lower computational and financial costs. Independent validation To ensure transparency and credibility, Verses submitted AXIOM's research paper, mathematical proofs, and source code for independent review to Soothsayer Analytics, a globally respected AI certification and advisory firm. Soothsayer is known for its rigorous standards and is trusted by Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies. Expert insights Dr. David Bray, Ph.D, chair of the Accelerator and distinguished fellow, Stimson Centre; senior fellow with the Institute for Human-Machine Cognition as well as an expert with MIT Horizon, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Harvard's Leadership for a Networked World Program, caught early access to the paper. 'In many critical fields, there's an urgent need for models that are more reliable, less constrained by past training sets, and more adaptable to a changing world,' He said in a news release. 'Active Inference offers a more transparent, energy-efficient, and generalizable approach to intelligence—one that mirrors how humans learn, adapt, and simplify. The sample efficiency of AXIOM is particularly noteworthy, showing how it can generalize from fewer examples, much like human cognition, using far less computation. And by using Bayesian model reduction to prune complexity, this work captures a fundamental principle of intelligent behavior: simplify where possible, but not at the expense of understanding. This is the kind of intelligence we need for systems to thrive in complex, real-world environments across both public and private sectors.' Implications for the future of AI If AXIOM's performance continues to hold across broader domains, it could redefine the foundations of artificial intelligence—moving away from data-hungry, compute-intensive models toward more biologically inspired, efficient systems. This could have far-reaching implications for industries ranging from robotics and autonomous systems to healthcare and smart infrastructure. The Atari 100K Challenge, introduced in 2015, involves creating a single artificial intelligence model capable of being trained to meet or beat human-level performance on a pool of up to 26 classic Atari (OTC Pink:PONGF) video games. The AI model must learn directly from pixel data, using only the score as a reward signal. Verses' leadership will provide broader context around benchmarking and showcase early results in comparison with other AI models. Specializing in biologically inspired distributed intelligence, Verses AI is focused on developing next-generation artificial intelligence solutions, including the Genius platform. Verses AI stock (CBOE:VERS) last traded more than 10 per cent higher at C$5.70. Join the discussion: Find out what everybody's saying about this stock on the Verses AI Bullboard, and check out the rest of Stockhouse's stock forums and message boards. The material provided in this article is for information only and should not be treated as investment advice. For full disclaimer information, please click here.
