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VERSES AI Inc. (VRSSF) is a cognitive computing company that regularly issues news and updates about its agentic software systems, enterprise intelligence platform Genius™, and related research and financing activities. Its news flow reflects developments in areas such as product commercialization, research milestones, spatial AI, and capital raising.
Investors and observers following VERSES news can expect announcements about financing arrangements, including private placements and secured convertible debenture offerings, where the company outlines terms such as interest rates, conversion prices, warrant structures, and intended use of proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes. VERSES also reports on corporate initiatives such as workforce reduction programs designed to strengthen liquidity, streamline operations, and align expenses with revenue objectives.
On the technology side, VERSES issues news about Genius adoption across multiple industries, describing use cases in advertising and media, aviation, consulting, customer relationship management, manufacturing, financial services, legal services, environment and sustainability, and oil and gas. The company highlights collaborations with enterprises and resellers, as well as projects such as developing an active inference causal model of financial markets for a major global investment firm.
VERSES’ news releases also cover research and recognition in fields like spatial AI, world models, and robotics. Examples include being named as a sample vendor in a Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar report, sponsoring the International Workshop on Active Inference, and unveiling a robotics architecture that performs household-style tasks without pre-training. For those tracking VRSSF, this news page offers a centralized view of the company’s disclosed business developments, research activities, and financing events over time.
VERSES AI (VRSSF) has announced preliminary results of its Genius™ agent's performance in the 'Atari Challenge' AI benchmark test. The company's variant, dubbed 'Atari 10k,' demonstrated superior efficiency compared to leading Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Transformer algorithms, achieving comparable or better results while using:
- 90% less training data
- 96% faster training time
- 96% smaller model size
The Genius™ agents efficiently learned gameplay mechanics through interaction, without human supervision, by understanding cause-effect dynamics across multiple Atari games. This performance indicates potential applications in real-world scenarios where data may be or incomplete, such as financial analysis, medical applications, risk assessment, autonomous driving, and robotics.
VERSES AI (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQB:VRSSF) has announced its participation in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos, Switzerland, from January 20-24th. During the event, the company will release an update on their Atari 10K Challenge, featuring Chief Scientist Karl Friston and senior leadership team members in various meetings, panels, and interviews.
The preliminary results show that VERSES' Active Inference-based models have achieved comparable or superior performance to current state-of-the-art reinforcement learning models while using 90% less data (10k frames) and significantly reduced computational resources. The upcoming update will include results and video demonstrations showing VERSES meeting or exceeding human-level performance across multiple Atari games.
VERSES AI (VRSSF) provided its Q4 corporate update, highlighting significant progress in its Genius™ product development and research achievements. The company released an enhanced version of Genius to beta program participants, featuring improved reasoning, planning capabilities, and user experience. Research milestones include preliminary results from the Atari 10K Challenge, where VERSES' Active Inference-based models achieved comparable or better performance than state-of-the-art systems while using 90% less data, 96% less compute, and resulting in 97% smaller models.
The company also reported successful results in outperforming OpenAI's o1-Preview in the Mastermind code-breaking test, with 100% accuracy versus 71%, 140 times faster performance, and significantly lower costs. Commercial projects, including a smart city partnership with Analog for taxi fleet management in Abu Dhabi, are progressing on schedule, with most beta users expected to convert to commercial engagements in 2025.
VERSES AI (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQB:VRSSF) has extended its exclusive contract with Professor Karl Friston as Chief Scientist. The renewal includes additional performance-based incentives, recognizing recent breakthroughs in research and development, particularly in the company's flagship product Genius™.
The extension builds on recent successes, including the Mastermind exercise and Atari benchmarks achievements. Professor Friston's theories on Active Inference have been fundamental to Genius's development and the company's cognitive computing initiatives. The collaboration aims to continue advancing the practical application of Active Inference research and developing intelligent ecosystems.
VERSES AI (OTCQB:VRSSF) has announced that its Genius™ AI system has outperformed OpenAI's o1 Preview model in the code-breaking game Mastermind. In a 100-game test, Genius achieved a 100% success rate compared to o1's 71%, completing tasks 140 times faster and 5,260 times more cost-effectively.
Key performance metrics show Genius completed all games in just over 5 minutes at an estimated cost of $0.05 USD, while OpenAI's model took 12.5 hours and cost $263 USD. Genius operated on a standard laptop, while o1 required GPU-based cloud computing. The company positions these results as evidence of Genius's superior logical reasoning capabilities and potential applications in cybersecurity, fraud detection, and financial forecasting.
VERSES AI (OTCQB:VRSSF) has released an updated version of its flagship product Genius™ to beta program participants. The new version introduces enhanced reasoning and planning capabilities, along with comprehensive explainability features. Key improvements include a new model building interface, simplified tutorials, and streamlined deployment processes based on early beta user feedback.
The updated Genius™ platform features a high-performing standard agent, intuitive low-code modeling interface, robust APIs, advanced Bayesian inference capabilities, and integrated user analytics. The release is currently available to existing beta partners, select journalists, and industry experts, with a commercial release planned for new partners in the coming months.
VERSES AI (OTCQB:VRSSF) announces upcoming year-end updates highlighting significant progress in research and product development. The company plans to share Atari 10K challenge benchmark results, demonstrate their Genius™ platform capabilities, and provide commercial updates. VERSES reports positive internal testing results for the Atari challenge and expects to release a Genius software update to beta users in December. The company will present 10 accepted papers at NeurIPS 2024, covering topics like active inference and predictive coding. Additional commercial activity is anticipated from existing partners, including Analog, and new relationships through 2024 and 2025.
VERSES AI announced a strategic partnership with Prodigii as part of their Genius™ beta program. Prodigii will utilize Genius' predictive and inferencing capabilities to develop intelligent solutions focused on sustainability planning and compliance for Fortune 1000 clients. The partnership aims to streamline Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) accounting standards and reporting requirements. Genius is designed to be composable, reusable, and capable of continuous learning, offering advantages over current static, pre-trained solutions that often produce unreliable results.
VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQX:VRSSF) has announced the initial results of its Genius™ Beta Partner collaboration with Volvo Cars. The companies have co-authored a paper demonstrating the use of VERSES' algorithms to predict the appearance of pedestrians, cyclists, and cars obscured behind stationary objects - an advancement beyond current autonomous vehicle AI capabilities.
The research, titled 'Navigation under uncertainty: trajectory prediction and occlusion reasoning with switching dynamical systems,' showcases a major improvement in autonomous vehicle safety. Using the Waymo open dataset, the experiments demonstrated significant enhancements in predicting animals, people, and objects entering the street from behind parked cars.
VERSES CEO Gabriel René stated that this advancement could help overcome a significant unsolved safety challenge in the autonomous vehicle industry, potentially paving the way for safer streets for all road users.
Verses AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS, OTCQX: VRSSF) announced a non-brokered private placement offering of up to 12,500,000 units at $0.80 per unit, targeting gross proceeds of up to $10,000,000.
Each unit includes one Class A Subordinate Voting share and one-half of one share purchase warrant, with each whole warrant exercisable at $1.20 per share for 36 months from the closing date, expected around September 25, 2024. The offering leverages the listed issuer financing exemption from prospectus requirements, making the shares freely tradeable without a hold period.
The offering will be conducted across Canada, excluding Québec, and may extend to the U.S. under Regulation D exemptions, subject to regulatory approvals. Finders and advisors will receive a 6.5% cash commission and compensation warrants. Net proceeds will fund general working capital and corporate purposes.