Congratulations to CEO Sung Kim and the entire Upstage team on this incredible achievement. This is just the beginning.

It's clear that we're witnessing the emergence of a new competitive landscape—where nations mobilize their top tech companies and research institutions around a unified AI strategy.

Even more remarkable: Solar-Pro2 performed better than GPT4.X, Mistral series, LLaMA models, DeepSeek V-3 and KimiK2. And in this analysis, Solar-Pro2 was the most cost-effective, while the least cost-effective was Grok4.

Our portfolio company @upstageai just achieved something remarkable: their Solar Pro2 model ranked 12th globally on @ArtificialAnlys's Intelligence Index. This makes Upstage the first Korean company to rank in the top 10 worldwide, by company.

This summit will bring together 2000+ in-person attendees and industry luminaries including Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Bill Dally (Nvidia), Jakub Pachocki (OpenAI), Ed Chi (Google DeepMind), and many more. This summit represents a critical moment for our industry as we.

The next wave of AI innovation is being defined right now. We're excited to highlight the Agentic AI Summit 2025 on August 2nd at @UCBerkeley—which PVP Partner and Advisor @dawnsongtweets is organizing through Berkeley's Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence.

RT @dawnsongtweets: Join us at Agentic AI Summit 2025 — August 2 at UC Berkeley, with ~2,000 in-person attendees and the leading minds in A….

We believe there is a significant gap in the market for using AI in the physical world, not just the digital world. Venti is closing that gap. Congratulations, team!.

Through their autonomous and robotic technology side by side with human-driven trucks, Venti can run trucks 24 hours a day, maximizing logistics efficiency, reliability, and reducing industrial accidents.

Great to see Venti Technologies being recognized by the Pinnacle Awards with a Platinum Award for Best AI-Integrated Software Solution and two Diamond Awards in IoT, Robotics and Automation, and AI-Enabled Hardware.

Then World of Warcraft launched with unified, intuitive design — and dominated the market. Whatever the technology or application, the test tools should feel effortless, not overwhelming.

Gaming teaches us that power without usability loses to simplicity with just enough capability. Remember early MMORPGs? EverQuest had dozens of confusing interfaces, complex skill trees, and separate systems for everything. Players needed spreadsheets just to play.

OpenAI's next goal: to unify o-series models and GPT-series models. That didn’t surprise us.

In February this year, Sam Altman said that GPT-4.5 would be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model. "We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to

Daniela's research proves robots can bootstrap their own understanding through visual observation. No human intervention required. At Principal Venture Partners, we back companies that eliminate traditional constraints rather than work around them. The future belongs to systems.

It's AI-native thinking in action: instead of retrofitting sensors onto old systems, they rebuilt control from the ground up. The robot watches its own movements and figures out how its body works—exactly how humans learn.

No sensors. No programming. Just self-supervised learning from video.

Our advisor Daniela Rus and her team at CSAIL MIT just published breakthrough research in Nature: robots that learn motor control through vision alone.

We are witnessing a *SpaceX moment* for the government's decrepit nuclear debacle. Why?. - Small, modular reactors that can be tacked onto data centers. - Sodium based cooling systems that run *even when the reactor has no power*. After decades of nuclear fear, we're proud to be

At Principal Venture Partners, games are where we look first to understand how startups and early adopters are navigating emerging tech.