James Hendrickson

VERSES has recently been referenced twice in Gartner research on Data Science and Machine Learning and Agentic AI. You can find more details and links on our page tracking Gartner mentions at: verses.ai/blog/verses-fe…

A transcript, slides and recording of the VERSES company update held on  May 19, 2026 can now be found at: verses.ai/news/may-2026-…

@Scobleizer is 100% right and so is @GaryMarcus blind investment in tech that has hit the wall is a waste of money. Imagine if computers really could think and learn like people? No data centers, no huge electricity bills, no hallucinations. That's what @helloVERSES is doing.

The International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI) has reached an inflection point. What began six years ago as a handful of researchers exploring an alternative to traditional AI now stands as a growing movement, and this year’s conference marked a transition from theory toward real-world applications. #IWAI #activeinference verses.ai/blog/reflectio…

VERSES' digital brain, AXIOM, was featured in the New York Times today. "Building in basic concepts like time, space and causality might allow systems to better organize the data they encounter... potentially leading to richer outcomes. (Verses AI’s work on physical and perceptual understanding in video games is one step in this direction.)"

Thank you @GaryMarcus , professor emeritus at New York University, for recognizing that the current approach to AI won’t work and that VERSES may provide a solution. nytimes.com/2025/09/03/opi…

@GaryMarcus @wprins There is also an external validation: linkedin.com/pulse/verses-a…

@GaryMarcus @wprins Here is the paper pre-print showing our work and a summary on our website. arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784 verses.ai/research-blog/…

My work here is truly done. Nobody with intellectual integrity can still believe that pure scaling will get us to AGI. GPT-5 may be a moderate quantitative improvement (and it may be cheaper) but it still fails in all the same qualitative ways as its predecessors, on chess, on reasoning, in vision; even sometimes on counting and basic math. Hallucinations linger. Dozens of shots on goal (Grok, Claude, Gemini) etc have invariably faced the same problems. That’s exactly what it means to hit a wall, and exactly the set of obstacles I described in 2022. No hypothesis has ever been given more benefit of the doubt, nor more funding. Pure scaling simply isn’t the path to AGI. Attention was not all we needed. All I am saying, is give neurosymbolic AI with explicit world models a chance. 🫳 🎤

The Free Energy Principle is a pretty good idea, but its core value isn't to serve as a grand unifying "theory of everything" for cognition. Rather, its core insight is the rigorous emphasis on active inference, which has been badly missing from the deep learning era.

VERSES® Welcomes IEEE Final Approval of Spatial Web Standards. We plan to be the first to implement standards in a commercial application with Genius™. VERSES CEO, Gabriel René said “I believe that these standards mark the dawn of the next era of the web.”

Congrats to @hendrickson_jm and @DanMapes on their new roles! verses.ai/news/verses-pr…

@GReal1111 Fascinating…I’ve been hiring for agency for years but I never called it that!

In case you missed it, here is last week’s fireside chat on “Intelligence in the Age of Agents” with VERSES Chief Scientist, Professor Karl Friston and CEO @GReal1111 moderated by renowned neuroscientist, strategist and investor @oullier. verses.ai/blog/fireside-…

Karl Friston on Intelligence in the Age of Agents Join us for an exclusive fireside chat with Karl Friston, @helloVERSES Chief Scientist, one of the world’s most cited neuroscientists and the mind behind the Free Energy Principle and @helloVERSES CEO, @GReal1111, moderated by Oliver Oullier, renowned neuroscientist, strategist and investor. This engaging discussion will explore: 💭 AGI, Active Inference, Agents and other terms 👾 How to think about benchmarks like Atari and Mastermind 🐳 How is Genius™ different from LLMs like DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1? 🧑‍💻 Where does Genius shine and where does it sit in the “AI stack”? 🗓️ Thursday Feb 13th at 6:30p CET / 12:30p ET / 9:30a PT #AI #agents #activeinference #inference #reasoning #intelligence #machinelearning 🔗 Sign up at event.webinarjam.com/register/365/g…

Every year, NeurIPS captures the zeitgeist of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Check out the insights and reflections our researchers have on the state of the industry. verses.ai/research-blog/…