VERSES AI is a pre-revenue, early-stage software company building an enterprise AI platform called Genius. Genius is an "agentic intelligence" platform — it enables autonomous AI agents to make decisions, plan, and act within enterprise environments, particularly under uncertainty or with incomplete information. Target customers are machine learning engineers, data scientists, and developers at enterprises building domain-specific AI models, with announced use cases spanning smart cities, financial services, workforce scheduling, and manufacturing. Genius launched publicly in April 2025, so the company has no meaningful commercial track record. VERSES sells Genius as a SaaS product with subscription tiers priced by usage, and plans to supplement direct subscriptions with a third-party developer marketplace and first-party applications built on Genius. VERSES differentiates itself by building on "active inference," a framework developed by its Chief Scientist, neuroscientist Karl Friston, rather than using LLMs or deep learning. VERSES argues its approach is more reliable, computationally efficient, explainable, and adaptable than LLM-based competitors — though these claims are largely unverified. VERSES has 65 full-time employees and has funded operations through equity raises, completing multiple offerings in 2025 raising roughly $15M in gross proceeds. The company plans to scale distribution through channel partners, resellers, and systems integrators rather than building a large direct sales force.