Verses AI Inc (QB) (VRSSF) Noticias

VERSES to Release Atari Benchmark Results at World Economic Forum in Davos
Chief Scientist Karl Friston and Executive Team to be Featured at Key Events to Discuss Details
January 13, 2025 08:15 ET | Source: VERSES AI Inc.

In December they put out a PR stating they had released an updated version of Genius.
Afterwards they announced that they had easily beaten Open AI in the Mastermind Atari game.
That updated version of Genius was the version that took Genius to the next level and conquered all the Atari games.
They were now ready for general release.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia , Jan. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VERSES AI Inc a cognitive computing company specializing in next generation intelligent systems, today announces that Chief Scientist Karl Friston and members of their senior leadership team will be returning to The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025, taking place on January 20-24th in Davos, Switzerland , where they will participate in a number of meetings, panels and interviews.
During this event VERSES plans to release an update on the previously announced Atari 10K Challenge. Preliminary results have demonstrated that VERSES Active Inference-based models can achieve comparable or better performance than current state-of-the-art reinforcement learning models using just 90% less data (10k frames) and a fraction of the compute. The update will contain results and video demonstrations of VERSES meeting or exceeding human-level performance on multiple Atari games.

The next 6-7 weeks heading into Q2 will be extremely interesting,as they stated they would begin production of Genius.
They will need to raise a huge sum of money for hiring and marketing.
After they show the Atari results at Davos in front of the entire AI community,the next 6 months afterward will be something to behold for a penny stock.

Looks like Tobin Smith will get the rest of his Atari results at the Davos conference in front of the entire AI community.
10k,not 100k,which is the only one the multi-billion dollar LLMs can finish,and only partially.

"Stockwatch" https://www.stockwatch.com/News/Item/Z-C!VERS-3640819/C/VERS

This is a long stretch in between reports by Tobin Smith.
He said he had talked to Gabriel Rene in the October report and was told all 26 games would be released in 40 days.
I wonder if he's waiting for the release of the rest of the games before he puts out another report?
Next week all businesses should be running normally again after the holidays.
Is it possible that Verses releases something next week?

yea what institutions are investing and how much and what date 

Used to take 1-2 months to close a PP for $10 million.
This one will take two days for double the amount.
It's not cheap to run these companies.The LLMs go through billions every year.
The institutions are stepping up quicker and with more money,so they must see some runway coming.

Horrible price for the $20 financing. Stock will take a hit temporarily but should recover when financing closes.
JMO.

Microsoft’s $80B Investment to Set the U.S. AI Innovation on Fire

Microsoft revealed its boldest plan of investing $80 billion in artificial intelligence. This funding will be used to develop cutting-edge data centers worldwide to power AI models and cloud-based applications. The company further revealed that more than 50% of this investment will take place in the United States. This huge decision bolsters its confidence in the American economy and dedication to technological leadership.

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and vice chairman, outlined this bold vision in the blog post noting,
“The country has a unique opportunity to pursue this vision and build on the foundational ideas set for AI policy during President Trump’s first term. Achieving this vision will require a partnership that unites leaders from government, the private sector, and the country’s educational and non-profit institutions. At Microsoft, we are excited to take part in this journey.” https://carboncredits.com/microsofts-80b-investment-to-set-the-u-s-ai-innovation-on-fire/

If you do a lot of reading,even industry experts admit they have no idea what they'll be able to do with LLMs and how to make them profitable.
Even at this stage,they are an interesting toy.If they raise the price to play around with them,who would be willing to pay for it?
Businesses are still tinkering with them,knowing they aren't trustworthy enough to be left on their own,for the most part.
But everybody wants to build even more AI data centres for LLMs.Even Keven O'Leary is proposing a $70 billion centre in Alberta.
Current AI is a 2D configuration,meanwhile everyone knows the next generation must go to 3D and 4D.
It is also admitted by industry insiders that current AI can't reach AGI as is.
But,along comes Verses AI,which is 3D and 4D based AI,and which operates at a much lower cost base than LLMs,AND CAN ACTUALLY THINK!
It appears that true AGI is within reach now,by applying the power of the LLMs with the reasoning and cost savings of Verses.
It may also appear like the LLM operators are ignoring Verses at the moment.
Imo,by the end of this year,they will all be coming on board to add Verses 'Genius' to their own models,so they can finally finish building their product ahead of time, but also have it be profitable earlier,while entering the 3D and 4D format.
Genius is adaptable over different product lines and formats,while LLMs on their own are not.
This year will be interesting,while we wait for them to come to us,which WILL happen.
Either the LLMs partner with Verses,or Verses has to go into building their own computer/phone lines and LLM data centers to get the entire potential out of this product
These are the only two options.
Partnerships/buyouts with/for LLMs are coming.
These are the only two options for both sides.
Which LLMs are going to survive,and which are going to die?

you tell us

The volume across all three exchanges grows more every day.
At some point,we could start seeing 10 million share days.
The word is getting out,and one particular group is definitely accumulating and driving it up.
Who is it?

Imo,a couple of more news releases will take place very shortly,then a huge capital raise,which is needed before Q2,then a string of news releases that will propel the stock price well over $4.00 US,then they will announce they are making an application for the NASDAQ.
Should be on it by mid-summer.

WHY!?!?!

I agree - Which is why I am asking for a source but nothing has been provided.

Looking at over $2.00 today.If there was a $5-10-15 million PP coming the stock would have reversed toward the target price by now after this run.
Anybody thinking institutions can't get involved below $5.00 might be forgetting about those that deal penny stocks all the time.
"You help us now,and we'll let in on the big round in the overbought side"
If this run continues,then it's clear they have a group running this up,knowing it's all profit heading towards a NASDAQ listing and a minimum $4.00 price and a big funding round to prop it up coming.
If the goal here is NASDAQ,then they have to run it up to $8-10 to be safe from a selloff when it first starts to trade.
We'll see if this continues or a normal pullback takes place.
The short number is rising,so they're getting this will break,but a lot of news is set to be released,which might break the shorts.
One way or the other,the next week will be interesting to watch this.
You keep expecting this to calm down and reverse some,but it just keeps running.
Nothing says it's not a Blue Chip acquiring through multiple houses,no one knows... It's Germany,US and Canada all at the same time.

The strength of the price move and the volume daily is telling me institutions have been told there is a huge money raise coming and they've been told they'll get a chunk of it if they help push the stock price up ahead of time to get this in position for an uplist.
Because none of this is normal trading.
It's trading in a plan for something forthcoming,and the institutions are involved.

don’t listen to him he likes to pumpalot

Them moving over to the NASDAQ would be massive. Do you have the source for them talking about moving up? Curious to know what the expected timeline for that is.

Q2 begins in March...Next week we'll be halfway through January.
Verses has stated that commercialization begins in Q2.
That will require a huge influx of money to get going... personnel,rollout,marketing etc.
They are also looking at uplisting to NASDAQ.They have stated this also.
This requires a stock price run over $4.00,plus contracts with customers and money in the bank.
So,from January 12 to the end of February and on into Q2,there will be a massive amount of lifting and PRs coming out of the company.
That's an extremely short period for a company going into production.
Whoever isn't holding shares now will very shortly be left very far behind.Jmo

That is what I have been asking since Mastermind pr.
We should see soon with filings

https://www.allpennystocks.com/specialreportsus/3752/micro-cap-ai-company-outperforms-leading-ai-model-in-code-breaking-game-shares-rallying-on-news

Are the funds,which aren't technically supposed to buy on these lower exchanges or below a certain price,the ones scooping up all these shares?
Something definitely outside the box is taking place,ahead of time.

Sold all my shares, realized I'm happy to get out at break even and put my money elsewhere. GLTA

Again, that's a non answer, 

So just to clarify, 
1.) VRSSF is paying you $10k per month
2.) You say your very bullish on this company
3.) You haven't bought any shares in over a year
4.) You wont disclose how many shares you own.

*You sound like a pumper. And you don't disclose your comp on this platform.

I own 2,000 shares (I'm at break even). I would buy more but honestly mgmt decisions like paying all these stock promoters makes me really question if these guys know what they're doing.

*pls tell me what I'm missing

I bought shares in late '22, added in '23, and have never sold one share.

While this is a very speculative stock, AI + protocols offer a very compelling investment opportunity.
The technologies are very complex and I hope my videos/blog posts help convey the big picture.

Hope your right,

But projections are usually not realistic (especially in tech). These are usually way short one way or the other

VERSES Provides Q4 Corporate Update

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 31, 2024 - VERSES AI Inc. ("VERSES'' or the "Company”), a cognitive computing company specializing in next generation intelligent systems, provides a corporate update.

“Our mission is to unleash a new class of intelligent autonomous agents that are both more reliable and more efficient. Today, the research and product investments we’ve made are proving their worth—just as the diminishing returns of scaling data and compute, alongside the unreliability of traditional deep and reinforcement learning, are becoming widely recognized,” said Gabriel René, founder and CEO of VERSES.

“Our Genius product has evolved rapidly this quarter, and we are excited to transition from beta to its commercial phase in 2025,” René continued. “Its unique combination of active inference and learning, as highlighted in today’s announcement on the Atari benchmarks, enables a new class of agents capable of reliably automating real-time decision-making, reducing errors, and maximizing efficiency for enterprises—from software applications to robotic automation. By design, Genius goes beyond intelligent systems available today and has the potential to become a disruptive force in next-generation autonomous intelligent systems,” concluded Mr. René.

Quarterly Highlights include:

Genius™ Rollout

"Being able to explicitly model the cause-effect relationships of complex systems and quantify uncertainty means we can generate something not possible with traditional ML tools – results that are reliable, explainable, and assurance ready," said Andy Tasker, CEO of Prodigii.

VERSES released an update of its flagship product, Genius, to beta program participants earlier this month, which includes powerful, enhanced reasoning and planning capabilities, comprehensive model explainability, and support tools to accelerate onboarding. The latest release improves user experience by providing a new model editing interface with simplified tutorials and deployment processes based on initial feedback from early beta users. This release is initially available to select beta partners and machine learning practitioners. As Genius functionality evolves we expect to expand the number and variety of user personas and use cases in 2025.

Research Milestones

“As anticipated, we’re thrilled to share groundbreaking early results from the Atari 10k Challenge,” said Hari Thiruvengada, Chief Technology Officer of VERSES.

VERSES Atari 10K Challenge is an aggressive variant of the Atari 100K benchmark that aims to meet or exceed human-level performance across multiple Atari games using just 10k frames (90% less data) and a fraction of the compute with a single generalizable architecture than industry-leading approaches. Preliminary results demonstrate that VERSES Active Inference-based, Bayesian models can achieve comparable or better performance than state-of-the-art reinforcement learning models such as the #1 ranked BBF (Bigger, Better, Faster) from Google’s Deepmind and other deep learning transformer-based models that power OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta’s to LLM’s and all Generative AI models across multiple games using 90% less data, 96% less compute and resulting in models that are up to 97% smaller in size, which is key to operating on low-power devices. In addition, VERSES model performance was conducted on the equivalent of a CPU vs the GPU architecture required for the other algorithms.

“We believe this marks an historic shift for the AI industry at large,” stated Thiruvengada. “We have demonstrated that it is technically feasible to leverage Bayesian approaches at scale, tackling complex challenges like Atari with significantly reduced compute and sample sizes. Simultaneously, we are integrating these advanced capabilities into Genius, ensuring that we deliver a user-friendly and accessible solution for our customers. This is just the beginning of what we can accomplish together.”

A more comprehensive update on Atari results is forthcoming.

The Atari benchmarks come on the heels of VERSES sharing results demonstrating how an agent, powered by Genius, outperformed OpenAI’s o1-Preview, considered the industry-leading reasoning model on the code-breaking test Mastermind. Genius consistently outperformed o1-Preview by reliably solving the code 100% of the time vs. o1-Preview’s 71% accuracy rate while performing 140 times faster and costing 5260 times less. A detailed breakdown of the results can be found here.

Commercial Projects

The initial smart city project in partnership with Analog for simulating taxi fleet management in Abu Dhabi is progressing well and the discovery phase is on schedule.

“We are pleased that a majority of Genius beta users are expected to convert to commercial engagements in 2025,” said James Hendrickson, Chief Operating Officer. “We also have several new projects in a variety of different market segments that are in the scoping phase with contracting expected in Q1.”

Corporate and Operational Updates

As the Company anticipates scaling product and commercial operations, we have made several investments to shore up personnel and organizational processes.

VERSES extended Professor Karl Friston’s exclusive contract as Chief Scientist. The multi-year contract builds on the success of both research and product development and includes incentives tied to future milestones and deliverables.

VERSES researchers attended the 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024) held in Vancouver, Canada. Three full papers from VERSES were accepted and seven were included in various workshops with topics spanning, among other areas, active inference, predictive coding, embodied agents, and robotics. Professor Karl Friston presented at the NeuroAI workshop entitled “The three faces of AI,” and participated in a panel discussion on the fusion of AI and Neuroscience with fellow AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio.

Additionally, the Company operationalized research with standardized test environments, frameworks and more robust support for cloud services like Amazon Web Services. There has also been a focus on formalizing and improving knowledge transfer efficiency between research and product in order to help prioritize research efforts based on demand as well as the productization of research.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/12/31/3003120/0/en/VERSES-Provides-Q4-Corporate-Update.html

Nice PR today as a New Year's gift to chew on.
Everything seems to be falling into place.
If you feel that Gabriel Rene has been accurate with his predictions so far,then you'll remember that during his Quarterly report this past summer,he stated that Verses would be seeing $300-400 million in revenue beginning in 2025.
And that would be in the first year of commercialization.
Where does the stock price go?

I didn't realize this and many of you may be aware already but just a heads up that Einstock is currently compensated by VRSSF. I saw Crazyflavor's response then looked at Einstock's profile to confirm it. I'd also be very interested to see how many shares Einstock has acquired. Is the bullishness genuine belief or is he here doing what they're paying him to do?

This almost looks like Tobin Smith got his newsletter out on the weekend with a 100x recommendation.
Did Gabe give him an indication that more strong Atari results were coming,because today was a free-for-all right from the opening bell?
It sold strong right into the close,so will tomorrow be more of the same?
Strong volume on both sides of the border,almost like there was public news released...or a newsletter.

So they are still paying you $10k per month? 
If you are so bullish on this company post screenshots of what you hold (# of shares, that's the real measure of belief in this company), not just a buried disclaimer in the description of a YouTube video. Plus $10k per month isn't far off from an engineers starting salary.

So far I like the tech, hate the money management.

Verses AI OTCQB VRSSF YouTube Summary

VERSES AI VRSSF

Verses just went side by side against OpenAI playing the game Mastermind..
Mastermind is a game that requires "reasoning" which OAI claimed "Strawberry" had.
Verses just showed the world that they have a path to AGI, without requiring NVDA chips, data center or training.
That is disruptive..
They showed they could blow OAI away.. 3 secs vs 6 mins, $.05 vs $243, 100% vs 71%, 5 mins vs 12 HOURS

People in the AI space may be thinking that Verses (Genius) might be THE AI stock to own now.
Verses is valued around ($200--300m)...OAI is valued at $157B

I told folks to watch out for tax loss selling 3 months ago. I'm sure there were also short sellers in the mix. The company cannot legally release private reports to investors. I believe a confluence of factors are in play. I don't know what the newsletter promoters are saying but Gabe did state news would come out before the end of the year so there should be something tonight or tomorrow. That could be the primary stimulant.

Tobin Smith was told by Gabriel Rene that they would have the results for ALL 26 Atari games in 40 days.That was the last week of October.
What if they only put out the results of one game because it was material news,but withheld the rest to allow certain investors in before releasing the rest?
We are either seeing this,or Tobin Smith put out his newsletter and telling everybody to pile in now!
Because this is not normal buying, especially during a Christmas break.

It appears somebody knows something that is not yet public, and they are front-running the news.

The stock is going crazy...Is Gabe letting a certain group buy cheap before he releases a bombshell?

How much is Verses worth once they release Genius and launch Web 3.0?
4-5 months to find out!

In the last month,Verses has been releasing news about every 6 days.
They are gearing up for release in the 2nd Quarter,so it's a busy period from here on out.
Do they drop another bomb tomorrow?Companies on their way up don't take holidays.

Once they announce they are ready for production and sales,the whole company shifts from just a lab to a business.
They will need a lot of money to hire new personnel and marketing at that stage,as well as keeping the research going.
They are saying 2nd Quarter,which begins March 1.
A huge money raise should be coming in the next two months.
If it all falls into place as they are implying,the 6 week period from the 14th of January to the end of February should be extremely busy for the company and the shareholders.

When Tobin Smith talked to Gabriel Rene near the end of October,he was told the results of all 26 Atari games would be released,not just one game.
I doubt Rene would lie to a well-known newsletter writer with wide appeal and who put $100,000 of his own money in the stock.
So, the rest of the results should be forthcoming any time,whatever they are.
A newsletter writer could be the death knell for a small company trying to attract investors.
The 3rd week of January will see something coming out,imo.
All the holidays will be over,an
d Rene is calling Q2 for public release of Genius,which begins in March.
They will need a huge money raise to get it done,along with marketing.

what du you mean no nmention of vrssf

Dare we dream a little dream...............
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-works-add-non-openai-models-into-365-copilot-products-sources-say-2024-12-23/

Dec. 23, 2024 VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQB:VRSSF) a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation intelligent systems, announces that the Company has extended its exclusive contract with Professor Karl Friston, acclaimed neuroscientist, to continue his role as Chief Scientist. The extension includes additional performance-based incentives that recognize recent breakthroughs in research and development and contributions to its flagship product Genius™ and further expected technological advancements.

“Our work with Professor Friston has exceeded our expectations,” said Gabriel René, founder and CEO of VERSES. “His revolutionary theories on Active Inference have been central to the creation and continued development of Genius, as well as our broader cognitive computing initiatives. We believe the results from Genius have been nothing less than spectacular, some of which we previewed with the Mastermind exercise recently. The recent success in the Atari benchmarks further underscores the transformative potential of these systems, and we look forward to sharing more results in the coming weeks. We are thrilled to deepen this collaboration as we build on these milestones and drive innovation forward together.”

Professor Friston, whose partnership with VERSES is central to advancing the practical application of his research, shared his thoughts on the renewed agreement:

“I am delighted to be able to extend my work with a company so deeply committed to translating the right scientific principles into transformative and sustainable applications,” said Professor Friston. “VERSES’ steadfast dedication to pioneering the commercialization of Active Inference research is already yielding exceptional results. My continued commitment to VERSES reflects not only a shared belief in this ambitious vision, but also a dedication to advancing the groundbreaking work we have undertaken together. I eagerly anticipate contributing to this mission in the years to come — as we aim to shape the future of intelligent ecosystems.”

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/12/23/3001222/0/en/VERSES-Renews-Agreement-with-Chief-Scientist-Karl-Friston-to-Continue-Innovation.html

New Gabriel Rene interview on Deep Dive on YouTube...

That would mean G42 can buy shares at ~$3 per share prior to any follow-on offering.

Gabriel Rene response after looking at the two previous posts about Open AI's ARC test results...
https://x.com/GReal1111/status/1870295602963059002?t=uXMMENxZc8JRZ3vlbcKVXQ&s=19

"For the math challenged"?

Verses has $140m market cap, 3.7billion divided by $140m gets you 26x plus some change. Also, that deal locks in Analog in. no matter how much Verses dillutes their shares. And their going to dilute like a mother. This gives Analog a lot of upside if Verses dillutes to say 1 billion shares. I believe these guys may be able to pull off the tech, but there is a reason these companies stay private for awhile, they can raise money at crazy valuations (So their investors don't get murdered by dilution)

Just my 2 cents