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H (formerly Holistic AI), founded in 2023 in Paris, France, aims to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is building a large action model to automate business tasks. UiPath previously invested $32.5 million in the startup, split between equity and convertible debt.

Mindverse AI (心识宇宙), founded in 2022 in Hangzhou, China, builds the personal AI agent Macaron and, through its Mind Lab unit, agent models and the enterprise post-training platform Mint.

Deep Cogito is a superintelligence company founded in 2024 in San Francisco, developing large language models with hybrid reasoning capabilities.

Shenzhen Mindverse Technology (Mindverse), founded Oct 2023, is a globally-oriented AI company focused on post-training and continuous learning for agent models. Using reinforcement learning plus LoRA on top of general foundation models, it aims to turn models from 'knowing a lot' into 'getting things done' with low-cost personalization. Its consumer product Macaron, billed as the world's first personal agent, instantly turns conversations into personalized mini-apps; it has launched in North America, Japan and Korea with 2M+ users and ~100K DAU. On the tech side it open-sourced Macaron-V1-Preview, a 749B-parameter agent model based on GLM 5.1 (202K context, MIT license). Its ~20-person core R&D team draws from DeepSeek, ByteDance Seed and xAI, with Tsinghua/MIT/Duke backgrounds.

Visko is an AI research company building "Live Models" — world models that run continuously in real time rather than rendering static clips. Founded in 2025 in Sunnyvale, California, its 16-person team draws from Apple, Google DeepMind, Meta, Amazon and Tesla, advised by Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley), Steve WaiChing Sun (Columbia) and Mengye Ren (NYU).

OctaiPipe was founded in 2016 in London, UK, and operates an end-to-end Federated Learning Operations (FL-Ops) platform for edge AI deployment, designed for data scientists and AI engineers in critical infrastructure sectors. The platform orchestrates distributed machine learning across IoT device networks and is available on Microsoft Azure, AWS, or private cloud, and has received a £500,000 grant from Innovate UK.