New Haystack Enterprise Platform capabilities and engineering services help organizations run high-quality, sovereign AI agents more efficiently.

BERLIN, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — deepset, the German company behind the open source Haystack framework, today announced new capabilities and services to reduce the cost of running high-quality, sovereign AI agents. Unveiled during NVIDIA GTC Berlin, the offering combines agent optimization in Haystack Enterprise Platform with custom AI model services for government, defense and industry.

The announcement builds on deepset’s work with organizations including the European Commission, whose self-hosted AI@EC platform supports governed AI applications; Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), which uses an AI assistant for project-funding guidance; and Bosch, whose DRIVE Companion supports its SAP migration teams.

As AI usage grows, controlling AI spend requires looking beyond individual models to how they’re used within agent systems. deepset helps organizations optimize model choice and the harness together, testing changes against cost and quality requirements while retaining control over models, data and infrastructure.

“AI economics will not be solved by choosing the cheapest model or defaulting to whichever model leads the market this week,” said Milos Rusic, CEO of deepset. “The goal is to complete the task at the lowest cost that meets your quality and security requirements. Sometimes that means a smaller, specialized model. Sometimes it means improving the harness around a larger one. We help organizations work on both, measure the result and keep sovereign control of the system.”

Reduce cost per task, maintain required quality

Haystack Enterprise Platform now shows AI spend by model, agent, service and team, both in centralized reporting and alongside production traces. Teams can find expensive or unreliable steps, compare models and harness configurations, and evaluate systematically whether a change reduces cost while meeting the quality required for the task.

As the platform covers the full loop of building, running, optimizing and operating agents, teams can identify and apply improvements rapidly within the same environment. Upcoming enhancements will further automate the loop, continuously recommending opportunities to reduce cost and improve quality of production agents, with human approval before deployment.

Use specialized models where they improve the economics

Industry-tuned decision models and small language models can handle repeated tasks such as classification, routing and verification more efficiently, reducing reliance on frontier LLMs, lowering costs and enabling deployment on locally controlled infrastructure.

deepset’s custom AI model services bring its experience developing specialized language models to government, defense, energy and regulated industries. Forward Deployed Engineers assess customer requirements, select, adapt or post-train models, and evaluate them against quality and cost objectives before integrating them into production agent workflows.

Customers own the models developed for them. Haystack’s model-agnostic orchestration connects those models with larger LLMs, enterprise data and tools, preserving the freedom to change components as new innovations or requirements emerge.

Efficiency with sovereign control

Organizations can deploy Haystack Enterprise Platform in public cloud, sovereign cloud environments such as STACKIT, or self-hosted infrastructure. Shared permissions, policies and usage controls govern how agents access models, tools and data.

This gives teams the ability to improve AI economics within their security and regulatory requirements, without tying their applications to a single model provider or deployment environment.

deepset and NVIDIA at GTC Berlin

Haystack Enterprise Platform uses NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for shared, GPU-accelerated embedding and reranking. Through its custom model services, deepset engineers can also assess and tailor NVIDIA Nemotron models where suited to customer tasks.

At GTC Berlin, deepset will join NVIDIA for sessions on Trustworthy AI Platforms and Secure, Self-Improving Agents for On-Prem AI. Visit deepset at booth #3071.

About deepset

Based in Berlin, deepset is the company behind Haystack, the widely adopted open source framework and enterprise platform for AI agent orchestration. Through its products and services, deepset helps organizations build, run, improve and govern sovereign AI agents while retaining control over models, data and infrastructure.  Learn more at: www.deepset.ai/

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Fresh capital brings Vintage to over $4.8 billion in AUM, expanding its ability to partner with leading and capacity-constrained venture managers and invest across a growing universe of venture-backed companies.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vintage Investment Partners (“Vintage”), a global venture capital platform founded in 2003, today announced it has raised $920 million in new capital bringing Vintage’s assets under management to over $4.8 billion. The capital further expands the firm’s ability to invest across leading venture funds and venture-backed companies on a primary and secondary basis at a time when more value is being created in private markets, portfolios are maturing, and demand for venture exposure and liquidity continues to grow.

The fresh capital comes at a pivotal moment for venture. Companies are staying private longer, and more of their value is being created before the public markets ever see it. Meanwhile, AI is accelerating innovation, helping create a new generation of high-growth technology companies that are reaching significant scale while remaining private. Capital is also concentrating at the very top of venture. According to the Q2 2026 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, just three firms accounted for nearly half of all venture capital raised in the first half of 2026. As capital concentrates among a relatively small number of firms, access becomes increasingly difficult to earn, and Vintage has spent more than two decades earning its place within that ecosystem.

“More value is being created in private markets, over shorter timelines, than at any point in the history of venture,” said Asaf Horesh, Co-Managing Partner. “In a moment like this, one thing hasn’t changed, it’s only become more decisive: many of the most successful founders continue to partner with a relatively small group of highly sought-after venture managers. That is exactly where we invest, and earning a seat with them is the hardest, most important work we do. With more than $1.1 billion raised over the past three years across primary, secondary and co-investment strategies, we can support fund managers, companies and investors in more ways, while helping address the growing demand for liquidity across the venture ecosystem.”

Focused exclusively on venture and with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York, Vintage has built long-standing relationships with many of the venture ecosystem’s most sought-after managers in the U.S., Europe and Israel, while developing proprietary data and insights across thousands of venture funds and companies it tracks. The raise also marks another step for Vintage, as alongside current partners Asaf Horesh, Abe Finkelstein, Amit Frenkel, Iren Reznikov and Leyla Holterud, the firm has promoted Tzlil Kovetz to Partner, recognizing her progression from Associate to Partner and reflecting her contributions across the investment platform for the last five plus years. In addition, Ilan Leiferman, Vintage’s Chief Value Officer was also promoted to Partner. Ilan leads Value+, Vintage’s value creation platform, which connects portfolio companies with global enterprises from our network of hundreds, and has helped generate hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial opportunities across the firm’s ecosystem. Vintage also recently appointed Brachie Sprung as Chief Investor Relations Officer, bringing two decades of global experience across venture capital, fundraising, investor relations and strategic communications.

“We are deeply grateful to our LPs for the trust they continue to place in Vintage,” said Abe Finkelstein, Co-Managing Partner. “We never assume our place in the room; we earn it, by doing the work, holding a very high bar for how and where we invest, and putting years of relationships and market understanding to work for our investors. In a market like this, that discipline matters more than it ever has. The promotions of Tzlil Kovetz and Ilan Leiferman to Partner, and the appointment of Brachie Sprung as Chief Investor Relations Officer, reflect our commitment to building a multi-generational institution and strengthening the team that will help lead Vintage’s next chapter.”

About Vintage Investment Partners

Vintage Investment Partners is a global venture capital platform managing $4.8 billion and focused exclusively on venture. We invest in venture funds and venture-backed companies through long-standing relationships with many of the venture ecosystem’s most sought-after managers. Our Fund of Funds, Secondaries, and Growth investment strategies provide multiple access points across the venture market, bringing together deep relationships, proprietary data, and signals from enterprise demand. Value+ puts that platform to work, connecting the companies and managers we back with a network of more than 650 leading enterprises.

Past investment experience, manager relationships, fundraising success and portfolio company outcomes are not indicative of future results.

Disclaimer: This communication is provided for informational purposes only. Any statements regarding market opportunities, investment strategies, industry positioning, portfolio companies, manager relationships, or future prospects reflect current views and are subject to change. Past experience and achievements are not indicative of future results. Additionally, the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Firm and do not constitute a guarantee of future results or performance.

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NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on October 21st

Plaid CTO Will Robinson speaks to NYSE from Money20/20 USAThe next horizon is “making sense” of financial data, Robinson told Host J.D. Durkin.Plaid is a private fintech, recently valued at $8 billion, with a business focus on connectivity, paired with intelligence.Pineapple Financial rebrands to PentivThe move combines its established mortgage platform with a new intelligence model.Pentiv says this marks the next phase of its evolution.Acorns accesses Gen Z with Frich DealFinancial wellness system Acorns announced on October 13 that it purchased Frich.Frich called itself a financial education startup, reaching 1.6 million users.Frich founders will join Acorns as Co-Leads of Education and Community.

Opening Bell
Simplify Asset Management, Inc. celebrates the Simplify Managed Futures ETF

Closing Bell
Credo AI rings in the era of trusted AI and celebrates its 5th Annual AI Trust Summit

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