Verses announces third-party recognition for ‘Digital Brain’

VERSES AI announced third-party recognition of its digital-brain architecture, AXIOM, following features in WIRED and Popular Mechanics and public acknowledgement from ARC-AGI benchmark creator Francois Chollet. 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. Francois 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 X.com 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”. 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.