VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE:VERS) (OTCQX:VRSSF) ("VERSES'' or the "Company”), a cognitive computing company specializing in next generation intelligent systems, announces that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) P2874 working group voting members have approved the Spatial Web standards: Hyperspace Modeling Language (HSML) and Hyperspace Transaction Protocol (HSTP).

“We are honored that the IEEE working group members have approved HSML and HSTP as the global standards for AI, IoT and robotic interoperability and governance. The approval positions these new standards to potentially become as ubiquitous as HTTP, WiFi, or Bluetooth protocols that enable interoperability between billions of devices and systems,” said Gabriel René, CEO of VERSES. “Industry and governments want to safely drive the proliferation of AI and autonomous technologies and we believe that the Spatial Web standards pave the road for both safer and faster market adoption.”

The Spatial Web is a hyper-connected, ethically-aligned network of humans, machines, and intelligent systems. HSML and HSTP provide standard formats for structuring multidimensional information in a unified format that includes the rules, requirements and restrictions that govern how AI and related systems can interact.

VERSES is the first company to apply the Spatial Web standards in their product, Genius?, a toolkit for developers to generate intelligent software agents that enhance existing applications with the ability to reason, plan, and learn. “Unlike generative AI platforms which simply remix content based on their training data, Genius Agents have a world model, like a mental model, which they continuously update in order to make increasingly accurate predictions. The Spatial Web standards allow agents to share these world models and therefore enable a distributed network of composable agents that can coordinate and interoperate with other software,” said Chief Product Officer, Hari Thiruvengada.

In their 2024 Hype Cycle for AI¹ report, Gartner recently classified VERSES approach with Genius as First Principles AI which enables a more reliable representation of context, accelerated training, data efficiency, improved generalizability, enhanced interpretability, and more adaptive systems as compared to current mainstream machine learning methods. More information on VERSES approach can also be found in a paper the Company released in 2023 entitled, “Designing Ecosystems of Intelligence from First Principles².”