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[Frangipani]

#EmbeddedWorld2025 marked another exciting milestone for BrainChip. | BrainChip

#EmbeddedWorld2025 marked another exciting milestone for BrainChip. Over the course of the event, we had the opportunity to engage with developers, partners, and industry leaders from around the globe, all sharing a vision for more intelligent, efficient, and responsive edge AI. Our booth was...

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The two gentlemen standing next to Alf Kuchenbuch and Gilles Bézard in the top picture are Jules Lecomte and Axel von Arnim from fortiss, by the way!
Great to see them visiting the BrainChip booth!
Coincidentally, I had posted another picture with Jules Lecomte in it just two hours ago, regarding the CORINNE project… Or was it telepathy?

Anyway, today was definitely not Jules Lecomte’s first encounter with Akida:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-447484

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great telepathy! well done!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!

Fortiss is the München/Munich-based Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems (https://www.fortiss.org/en/about-fortiss).
It is a non-profit limited company, whose shareholders are the Free State of Bavaria (2/3) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Fraunhofer Society (1/3).
They have been doing neuromorphic research for years, collaborating extensively with Intel, and as partners in the Human Brain Project also experimented quite a bit with SpiNNaker. In addition, they have also worked with IBM:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-418482

Neuromorphic Computing - fortiss

The fields of competence at the fortiss Institute face the current trends in the development of software and its use in practice within an ambitious research program.

www.fortiss.org

As I mentioned in my above post last night, fortiss and neuroTUM (TU München) jointly organised a Neuromorphic Hackathon in mid-November, where a student team mentored by Jules Lecomte (fortiss), Gregor Lenz (Neurobus) and Arunkumar Rathinam (University of Luxembourg) won the challenge using Akida.

Note, though, that fortiss have also newly partnered with Innatera alongside us.

https://www.fortiss.org/fileadmin/user_upload/06_Ergebnisse/Informationsmaterialien/fortiss_broschuere_update_2024_web.pdf

(brochure in German only)

Research partnerships:

 

[Slade]

In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?

Yep. When I heard the BrainChip team proudly mention that existing partners visited their booth I kinda of thought surely they already communicate with each other enough. And don’t we already have enough customers to focus on. I think it’s fair enough having Tony as a keynote speaker, I can see the value. But how much value are we getting from our booth that’s 1/10 tenth of the size of Edge Impulses.

 

[Slade]

I am a stage where I want the shareholders to tell Sean, Antonio and others to stay in America and hold the AGM on Zoom. Save the business class flights, hotels and meal allowances for a time when BrainChip is making a profit.

 

[HopalongPetrovski]

In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?

Hi GazDix.
I sympathise with what you're expressing and having worked at a company that went the conference and trade show route, I felt the same way at the time.
And it took a hell of a lot of persistence and years of apparently wasted expense, before it eventually paid off.
In many cases the opportunity tide turned on the established reputation of being a major "player" in the market and getting to know and be known by the other significant entity's and their key personal.
It's the old "not what you know but who" that often opens doors to partnerships and opportunities that don't otherwise get advertised and much of it is done on a nod and a handshake, amongst known, and more significantly, trusted colleagues.
I could never keep up with him, but my boss who drove this strategy would spend each night of the trade shows out drinking and carousing with his contemporaries until they eventually became pals. Pals who do deals with each other.
It's also a good place to meet new players who sometimes have access to innovative or cheaper options that can be exploited.
It's still cut throat business, but eventually just showing up and being seen amongst the big boys starts to lend one some gravitas.
Of course you still need a compelling and competitive offering but waiting around to be discovered can take significantly longer, and faster growth is achieved through perceived presence in the market.
After initially being sceptical, then seeing it play out over time, I came away a believer.
So much in business comes down to "who" you know, and "who" knows you.
It was actually what first drew me to Sean.
His contacts. But, like I said, it takes time.
And longer than many of us wagered for, I think.
Although also still think that given they are now pushing for the redomicile, they must be close to a significant breakthrough.
I certainly bloody hope so.

 

[Slade]

Hi GazDix.
I sympathise with what you're expressing and having worked at a company that went the conference and trade show route, I felt the same way at the time.
And it took a hell of a lot of persistence and years of apparently wasted expense, before it eventually paid off.
In many cases the opportunity tide turned on the established reputation of being a major "player" in the market and getting to know and be known by the other significant entity's and their key personal.
It's the old "not what you know but who" that often opens doors to partnerships and opportunities that don't otherwise get advertised and much of it is done on a nod and a handshake, amongst known, and more significantly, trusted colleagues.
I could never keep up with him, but my boss who drove this strategy would spend each night of the trade shows out drinking and carousing with his contemporaries until they eventually became pals. Pals who do deals with each other.
It's also a good place to meet new players who sometimes have access to innovative or cheaper options that can be exploited.
It's still cut throat business, but eventually just showing up and being seen amongst the big boys starts to lend one some gravitas.
Of course you still need a compelling and competitive offering but waiting around to be discovered can take significantly longer, and faster growth is achieved through perceived presence in the market.
After initially being sceptical, then seeing it play out over time, I came away a believer.
So much in business comes down to "who" you know, and "who" knows you.
It was actually what first drew me to Sean.
His contacts. But, like I said, it takes time.
And longer than many of us wagered for, I think.
Although also still think that given they are now pushing for the redomicile, they must be close to a significant breakthrough.
I certainly bloody hope so.

The drinking part sounds appealing.

 

[Bombersfan]

I am a stage where I want the shareholders to tell Sean, Antonio and others to stay in America and hold the AGM on Zoom. Save the business class flights, hotels and meal allowances for a time when BrainChip is making a profit.

Yeah not attending world renowned tech shows that a lot of big players attend to keep showcasing a revolutionary new product, and avoiding face to face confrontation at agm’s would be a real show of strength. Traction is needed soon, but what a bullshit couple of comments.

 

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[DingoBorat]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!

Fortiss is the München/Munich-based Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems (https://www.fortiss.org/en/about-fortiss).
It is a non-profit limited company, whose shareholders are the Free State of Bavaria (2/3) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft / Fraunhofer Society (1/3).
They have been doing neuromorphic research for years, collaborating extensively with IBM and Intel.

Neuromorphic Computing - fortiss

The fields of competence at the fortiss Institute face the current trends in the development of software and its use in practice within an ambitious research program.

www.fortiss.org

As I mentioned in my above post last night, fortiss and neuroTUM (TU München) jointly organised a Neuromorphic Hackathon in mid-November, where a student team mentored by Jules Lecomte (fortiss), Gregor Lenz (Neurobus) and Arunkumar Rathinam (University of Luxembourg) won the challenge using Akida.

Note, though, that fortiss have also newly partnered with Innatera alongside us.


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https://www.fortiss.org/fileadmin/user_upload/06_Ergebnisse/Informationsmaterialien/fortiss_broschuere_update_2024_web.pdf

(brochure in German only)

Research partnerships:

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"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!"

...It is a non-profit limited company..



"It says PROFIT! I'm gonna be rich!"

 

[Shezza]

This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections

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While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

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Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.

 

[manny100]

This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections

View attachment 79260

While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

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Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.

Thanks Frangipani, Tata applied for the patent on 14/12/22 so they have been playing with it for over 2 years.
We just might be getting closer to another validation event via Tata sometime this year.
Not sure what product use or uses they have in mind for it.
TATA did say health and Industrial.
Now that Onsor has the honor of the 1st wearable i think we see plenty of work being done with AKIDA on all sorts of afflictions.

 

[schuey]

In the spirit of the establishment of the controversial DOGE department to detect waste and inefficiency in government departments, I would like to propose perhaps a controversial question to BRN shareholders here.
Why do we fund and go to these Embedded World and other exhibitions year after year costing our company a considerable amount of money?

In our Annual Report, under the current liablilites column 'trade and other payables' we have moved from $853,642 in 2023 to 1,373,294 in 2024.

Over a $500k difference which is double our receipts from customers.

Why? I can only assume at least 25% are these conferences. But as usual, nothing is ever clear.
If we were just beginnning, sure, this is a good expense for future growth. But we have been doing these for years on end with gaining 'partnerships' but little to no solidified contracts since 2020. In fact, our marketing and sales team have changed so much in the last few years, why show up with different folks? Great look.

If a reason to do this is to appease shareholders, I'm not buying it. So can anyone with experience in these matters explain why?

I was thinking the same thing, We have had enough exposure to gain interest but obviously The Team are still chasing.......

 

[GazDix]

Yeah not attending world renowned tech shows that a lot of big players attend to keep showcasing a revolutionary new product, and avoiding face to face confrontation at agm’s would be a real show of strength. Traction is needed soon, but what a bullshit couple of comments.

Glad the Hawks will smash you tonight sunshine.

 

[Bombersfan]

Glad the Hawks will smash you tonight sunshine.

Ouch that’s a zinger.
I wonder if Pepsi will stop spending millions on Super Bowl ads and maccas will stop sponsoring almost everything because they already have enough customers. I’m sorry but that was the dumbest comment I’ve heard in a while. Let’s not showcase the astronomical developments with LLM’s and hope people come to us and ask us “whats new”?

 

[7für7]

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new partner - fortiss!"

...It is a non-profit limited company..



"It says PROFIT! I'm gonna be rich!"
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[7für7]

Found this.. not Brainchip related but interesting

従来の大規模言語モデル（#LLM ）の重大な欠点の1つは、すでにモデル内にある静的な情報に依存することです。基本的に、プロンプトを理解して応答するのは得意かもしれませんが、多くの場合、最新の情報や特殊性の高い情報は提供できません。そこで活躍するのが検索拡張生成（RAG）です。RAGは、現在の情報と新しい情報を組み込み、これらのモデルの信頼できる情報源とすることで、この欠点を克服します。 | Canonical

従来の大規模言語モデル（#LLM ）の重大な欠点の1つは、すでにモデル内にある静的な情報に依存することです。基本的に、プロンプトを理解して応答するのは得意かもしれませんが、多くの場合、最新の情報や特殊性の高い情報は提供できません。そこで活躍するのが検索拡張生成（RAG）です。RAGは、現在の情報と新しい情報を組み込み、これらのモデルの信頼できる情報源とすることで、この欠点を克服します。 あらゆるハードウェアやクラウドで動作する最高レベルの #生成AI ツールを学習して使用しましょう👉

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[Quiltman]

This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections

View attachment 79260

While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

View attachment 79261


Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.

We have been at this for a while

 

[manny100]

This week’s LinkedIn posts by TCS Research and Sounak Dey do not refer to a new patent, but instead to the one granted last year that we already knew about.

I believe it was @TECH who first posted about it on 24 April 2024:

https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-419909

See the link provided by TCS:

WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections

View attachment 79260

While Sounak Dey specifically refers to the patent idea having been “tried using BrainChip Akida MetaTF platform”, please note that the actual patent, which was filed in December 2022, mentions both Akida and Loihi - like all relevant patents by TCS and Accenture do, if I’m not mistaken.

View attachment 79261


Sounak Dey also mentions in his post that a related paper was accepted at ISCAS (the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems), so I reckon he wanted to use this positive notification by the conference organisers as an opportunity to promote their invention.

Follow up on my last post Frangipani, I notice that Tata referred to our news releases in 2019. It is possible that Tata were playing with AKIDA a couple of years before the 14/12/22 patent application date. Maybe 4 or 5 years this year?
Very interesting. Well i guess Tata are huge so a deal could be huge?

 

[Frangipani]

Found your post searching for Arquimea on Tsex.

An Embedded Software Research Engineer from Arquimea just liked one of Brainchip's recent LinkedIn posts.

Here's the post and like:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brai...p&rcm=ACoAABNRhjYBFfSUxFCyQN7T30eFUWBJTh-LcmM

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Nothing concrete but thought you'd like to know! Arquimea could be a rabbit hole worth chasing given we now know someone working there is aware of Brainchip.

You beat me to it.
Hélder Rodríguez has in fact liked two BrainChip posts over the past couple of days and may even have visited our booth in person, given he had posted about intending to attend Embedded World 2025 earlier.
Then again, he has also liked several posts by other companies in the neuromorphic space (Innatera, Prophesee and Femtosense).

I’ve had ARQUIMEA on my watch list for quite some time, given they’ve been doing neuromorphic research for years, even though the following passage on their website (https://www.arquimea.com/) always made me wonder if there was a chance at all of getting our foot in the door:

“We are a tech company that operates in high-demanding sectors to contribute to the development and progress of society. At ARQUIMEA we provide innovative solutions based on proprietary technologies.”

Anyway, Hélder Rodríguez recently co-authored an interesting conference paper involving a potentially life-saving use case that I wanted to share: real-time beach monitoring with UAVs and computer vision, assisting human lifeguards (even though the thought of UAVs constantly hovering above beachgoers is a rather eerie one, to be honest…)

Real-Time Beach Monitoring: Addressing Beach Safety With UAVs and Computer Vision - Polytechnic University of Madrid

portalcientifico.upm.es

 

[Slade]

Yeah not attending world renowned tech shows that a lot of big players attend to keep showcasing a revolutionary new product, and avoiding face to face confrontation at agm’s would be a real show of strength. Traction is needed soon, but what a bullshit couple of comments.

Fair enough

 

[Bravo]

Hey All,

I was just looking back at Pitt Street's Research from August 2021.

I thought it might be useful to see what they reported back then to see if we think we're tracking in the right direction.

I noticed it states "BRN has a distinct competitive advantage over its peers as learning is autonomous in Akida chips. Various other neural networks developed by peers, such as Intel and IBM, still require either software code or human interaction to learn". And "Loihi lacks convolution so running CNN’s on Loihi is very inefficient. Adding to the inefficiency is Loihi’s learning method, SLAYER, a slow, modified version of error back-propagation."

I don't know the technicalities well enough to judge if the above statement still holds true, so thought it would be a good question for the wider community to comment on.

All genuinely insightful thoughts are welcome.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5af533a312b13fb602fe7d7b/t/612313b3aae13c19f15e79bb/1629688762738/BrainChip+Holdings+research+initiation+report+-+20+08+2021.pdf