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Brain-Inspired AI Neo-lab Xisiid Intelligence Raises Seed Funding

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The Company Unveils the First Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Foundation System at the Shanghai Pujiang Innovation Forum

SINGAPORE, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Xisiid Intelligence, an AI neo-lab exploring new paradigms for next-generation artificial intelligence, announced the completion of a RMB 25 million seed round. The funding will primarily support continued research and development of its Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Foundation System and the joint development of AI applications with domain experts.

As AI agents move beyond conversational applications toward increasingly complex professional workflows, Xisiid Intelligence is developing a new approach designed to help AI systems learn from real-world task execution and continuously build reusable capabilities.

The company also made its public debut at the recent Shanghai Pujiang Innovation Forum, a high-level international science and technology forum jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China. At the forum, it introduced its technical vision and multidisciplinary team and unveiled its proprietary foundation system.

The Next Phase of AI: From Content Generation to Reliably Completing Complex Tasks

The way large language models (LLMs) are evaluated is reaching a pivotal transition. Industry attention is shifting beyond generation and reasoning performance on static benchmarks toward a more demanding question: Can AI reliably complete complex, real-world tasks?

In high-stakes professional fields such as investment banking, management consulting, and cross-border legal practice, a single assignment may require processing large volumes of heterogeneous documents, coordinating workflows across multiple software applications, and reasoning through complex, multi-step processes with iterative verification.

Current state-of-the-art LLMs, however, still struggle with complex, long-horizon tasks. As task length and complexity increase, they remain vulnerable to reasoning drift, compounding errors, and inconsistent execution. Frontier agent benchmarks highlight this gap. Across both APEX-Agents, which evaluates complex tasks spanning multiple applications, and Harvey LAB, which assesses professional legal deliverables, even state-of-the-art models continue to face challenges in reliably completing end-to-end work. Recent public results from Harvey LAB, for example, show that under its rigorous All-Pass standard, leading models still achieve end-to-end task completion rates of below 20%.

“Current AI systems have already achieved remarkable capabilities in generation and reasoning, but in mission-critical environments, the real test is whether AI can reliably complete complex, multi-step work over extended task horizons, like a human expert,” said Dr. Chua Yam Song, Founder of Xisiid Intelligence. “Increasing model parameters alone cannot solve the challenges of reliable execution and cumulative learning. Our approach, Brain-inspired Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence (BI4AI), goes beyond replicating the physical structure of the brain. Instead, we draw on the principles by which biological intelligence organizes cognition, memory, learning, and adaptive feedback—moving AI from a computation-centric paradigm toward a memory-centric one.”

A Dual-System Architecture for Reliable Execution and Continual Learning

To translate this memory-centric philosophy into an engineering architecture, Xisiid Intelligence has developed a dual-system architecture comprising System 1 and System 2, integrating a proprietary language model layer with structured memory layer.

System 1: Fast Execution Through Latent-Space Interaction

System 1 serves as the high-speed execution layer for frequent tasks. Powered by their proprietary latent exchange protocol, it enables vector-based interaction at the internal representation layer, allowing functional modules to exchange states directly rather than relying on decoding and encoding of text.

Conventional agent frameworks typically coordinate modules through prompts and natural-language context. As task horizons expand, larger context windows increase token overhead while important information can become diluted or lost. By using latent exchange protocol, Xisiid Intelligence aims to reduce communication overhead and information loss across complex workflows.

System 2: Task-Centric Hierarchical Memory

System 2 functions as a task-centric hierarchical memory system. Beyond factual knowledge, it captures reusable workflows, decision heuristics, and experience derived from previous task execution.

When the system encounters non-standard or unfamiliar situations, it can retrieve relevant prior experience to provide task-specific constraints, execution guidance, and decision support. This allows accumulated experience to become reusable rather than requiring each task to effectively start from scratch.

Together, System 1 and System 2 form a continual-learning loop driven by real-world task feedback:

Execution –> Feedback –> Generalization –> Consolidation

Within this loop, validated skills and experience can be progressively consolidated into reusable system and model capabilities. The evolution process is governed by evaluation, gating, and rollback mechanisms designed to keep updates controlled and reversible.

As experience accumulates, the system can progressively adapt to the workflows, knowledge, and operating environments of individual professionals and organizations.

Xisiid Intelligence reports that the architecture has already completed initial milestone validation. In benchmark evaluations covering complex professional tasks, its agent system—powered by models of approximately 30 billion parameters—has demonstrated performance comparable to frontier models with more than one trillion parameters, effectively supporting fully private, on-premise deployment.

A Multi-disciplinary Team Advancing Brain-Inspired Intelligence

The technical roadmap of Xisiid Intelligence is grounded on years of interdisciplinary research and engineering across computational neuroscience, brain-inspired computing, artificial intelligence, and large-scale systems.

Founder Dr. Chua Yam Song has extensive experience in computational neuroscience and neuromorphic computing. His previous roles include serving as Principal Investigator for the Neuromorphic Program at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore; Chief Researcher of Neuromorphic Computing at Huawei 2012 Labs; Chief Expert and Director of a leading Chinese Neuromorphic Computing Laboratory. He currently leads and participates in several Chinese National research initiatives, including projects under the China Brain Project.

At the 2024 World Internet Conference, Dr. Chua introduced NaoQi-SuWen, the first brain-inspired medical language model developed in China. In 2025, leveraging on common core technologies Qixin, a language model designed for emotional companionship, was also launched. He also contributed to the development of a general-purpose neuromorphic cloud platform capable of supporting both large language models and brain simulations up to 10 billion neurons.

Brain-inspired technologies developed under his leadership have been deployed across healthcare, electric power, energy, transportation, and agriculture, reflecting end-to-end experience spanning algorithm research, software development, and large-scale cloud-edge computing systems.

Building on this foundation, Xisiid Intelligence has assembled a multi-disciplinary team spanning computational neuroscience, neuromorphic computing, large-model algorithms, cognitive science, and systems engineering. The team combines rigorous academic research with extensive industry experience, with research published in leading international venues including Nature Machine Intelligence and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS).

This enables Xisiid Intelligence to connect insights from biological intelligence with current AI approaches such as large language models, agentic systems, memory architectures—advancing a new generation of brain-inspired innovation designed for complex, real-world tasks.

From Co-Creation to Own Intelligence

Xisiid Intelligence is currently working with institutional clients across professional domains including investment decision-making, legal due diligence, and enterprise operational governance, validating its Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Foundation System in real-world workflows.

Through continued human-AI interaction, this experience can be consolidated into persistent and reusable organizational memory, enabling the system to develop capabilities increasingly aligned with expertise and technical know-how of each organization.

The system can also be deployed on-premise, allowing mission-critical data, proprietary workflows, and accumulated organizational knowledge to remain within enterprise-controlled environments. Over time, organizations may then build an intelligence asset that is progressively accumulated and owned within the organization itself.

With the new funding, Xisiid Intelligence will continue advancing its core architecture and deepen co-creation with professional institutions across knowledge-intensive domains.

The Company sees this as critical to the transition of AI from content generation to the reliable completion of real-world tasks, and continually evolving through real-world execution.

Its long-term vision is to enable every individual and enterprise to build intelligence they truly own—intelligence that learns, evolves, and compounds over time.

This is “Own Intelligence.”

Media Contact: 
Name : Yang Chen
Email: chenyang@xisiid.com
Website: www.xisiid.com 

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Shanghai Electric Presents Three Energy Transition Solutions at Enlit Asia 2026

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Supporting power-sector decarbonization, grid resilience, and low-carbon fuels across ASEAN

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 02727, SSE: 601727) showcased three energy transition solutions under the theme “Powering the Archipelago” at Enlit Asia 2026, held Sept. 22-24 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

As the premier annual platform for the ASEAN power sector, Enlit Asia attracts more than 11,000 attendees and 280 exhibitors, bringing together industry leaders, policymakers and innovators to explore advances, share insights and shape the region’s energy future.

Three Solutions for ASEAN’s Energy Transition

Tailored to the ASEAN market, the three solutions address key regional energy transition needs, including reducing carbon emissions from existing thermal power systems, enhancing renewable energy integration and stable operation of island grids, and providing low-carbon fuels for the shipping and aviation industries.

The High-Efficiency Power & Decarbonization solution is designed to help markets like Indonesia reduce power-system carbon intensity, spanning unit upgrades, fuel transition, and system optimization. Modular steam turbines for H- and F-class combined-cycle systems meet both power and heating needs while improving efficiency and reducing overall costs. Heavy-duty gas turbines can operate with up to 30% hydrogen blending, and coal-fired power retrofit solutions improve thermal efficiency and reduce coal consumption for lower-carbon operation.

The Grid Modernization & Resilience Upgrade solution addresses island-grid challenges in renewable energy integration, frequency regulation and voltage stability. It combines synchronous condensers, flywheels, multi-technology energy storage and integrated solar-storage power pods. Synchronous condensers and flywheels deliver rapid frequency response and inertia support; multi-technology storage covers short- to long-duration applications; and the power pods provide plug-and-play clean emergency power for remote areas and critical loads.

Building on the Jilin Taonan project, the full-chain Power-to-X Integrated Solutions cover wind and solar generation, green hydrogen, biomass gasification, and green methanol synthesis. The project has completed 8,000 tons of green methanol bunkering, a global single-bunkering record. Phase II, launched on August 20, 2026, targets 200,000 tons of green methanol and 10,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel annually. Shanghai Electric is now extending these solutions to ASEAN’s shipping and aviation markets to support low-carbon fuel supply and shipping decarbonization.

Local Presence, Regional Impact

Shanghai Electric’s technologies and system solutions are supported by an established regional track record. Its energy equipment and services are deployed in Southeast Asian markets including Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, with representative projects such as the Indonesia Pelabuhan Ratu 3 x 350 MW Coal-fired Power Station Project, the renewable energy plant in Selangor, Malaysia, and the recent Samalaju 500 MW-class combined-cycle gas power project in Sarawak, Malaysia.

These projects demonstrate the company’s integrated capabilities across traditional power upgrades, high-efficiency gas generation, renewable energy, and green fuels—laying a foundation for the three solutions’ further application in ASEAN.

During Enlit Asia 2026, Shanghai Electric also participated in the official conference agenda, delivering a technical presentation titled “Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine Technology for Clean, Efficient, and Smart Power Generation,” outlining its technology roadmap and regionally adapted solutions in heavy-duty gas turbines and combined-cycle systems. The company also hosted multiple roadshows and exchange activities, inviting representatives from PLN, Indonesia’s national electricity company, local customers, and academics in the energy sector to discuss fuel diversification and the development of Indonesia’s power system.

Looking ahead, Shanghai Electric will continue to draw on its energy equipment manufacturing and system solution capabilities to work with ASEAN partners and support the transition to more efficient, stable and lower-carbon energy systems across Southeast Asia.

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JustMarkets: How Browser-Based Trading Is Changing Access to Global CFD Markets

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JustMarkets today showcased its browser-based CFD trading platform, offering traders direct, installation-free access to global CFD markets. As more traders move between devices, this web-based solution allows users to execute Contracts for Difference (CFD) operations directly from any web browser.

Trading Without Installation

The use of browser-based trading software may remove a common obstacle to market participation — installation. Traders do not need to download any software, configure the device, or rely on a single computer for their trading activities.

Users who trade in different places and use different devices may benefit most from browser-based platforms. The software becomes more accessible to traders who need quick access to charts and quotes.

Faster Access When Markets Move

CFD markets globally can respond swiftly to macroeconomic figures, central bank announcements, earnings news, commodity price fluctuations, and other geopolitical events.

JustMarkets’ web-based solution allows traders to respond to these events without the delay of installing software. While this cannot eliminate trading risk, it may improve the convenience of market access.

One Platform for Multiple CFD Markets

For CFD trading, browser-based trading terminals may be helpful, regardless of the asset class the trader uses. From forex and commodities to indices, stocks, and cryptocurrency CFDs, the trader can track multiple markets on a single online platform. It is particularly relevant in cases where traders monitor more than one instrument at a time or develop strategies based on overall market sentiment.

Simplicity for Everyday Trading

Not all traders require a complicated trading system for every decision they make. Often, what is needed are simple charts, live quotes, account details, and the ability to execute trades efficiently.

The JustMarkets web interface provides these core features through an uncomplicated web platform. New traders may find the platform easy to use, while experienced traders can use the web terminal to trade from wherever they happen to be.

Flexibility as the New Standard

Trading through the browser is part of a broader trend towards multiplatform trading. Traders are beginning to require greater flexibility in how they can access the market, including via desktop, mobile application, or the web.

However, the objective is not to replace other forms of trading altogether; rather, it is to provide greater flexibility to trade at a client’s convenience. For traders who require market access without an installation process, web-based trading offers an alternative platform.

Browser-Based Access Is Becoming Part of the Trader’s Routine

With an increasing number of traders moving across different platforms and seeking to trade faster in the global market, it is quite natural for web-based platforms to form part of the trading experience. JustMarkets has built its platform ecosystem with the provision of CFD instruments via platforms suited to various routines, ranging from desktop and mobile to browser-based platforms.

For the trader, the potential benefits include fewer technical steps, access to charting and order placement, and added convenience when following the forex, commodity, index, stock, and crypto CFD markets.

About JustMarkets

JustMarkets is a global financial CFD trading platform designed to eliminate technical “noise,” enabling investors to focus on what matters most: making accurate decisions. With modern infrastructure and professional services, JustMarkets serves as a reliable partner for CFD traders.

Risk Warning

Trading CFDs involves a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. CFDs are leveraged products and can result in rapid financial loss. Leverage increases market exposure and the potential for losses. Ensure you understand the risks involved before trading.

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Constellation Cold Logistics (“Constellation”) announced today the appointment of Abhy Maharaj as Chief Executive Officer

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LONDON, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Constellation, a leading platform in European cold storage and logistics, has today announced the appointment of Abhy Maharaj as its next CEO, effective 1 October 2026.

Abhy will succeed the current CEO, Carlos Rodriguez, who will move to the Advisory Board and support Constellation’s M&A strategy.  

Constellation Chair Nils S Andersen said: “On behalf of the board I would like to thank Carlos for his visionary leadership of Constellation over the last four years where the company has grown to become a European leader through acquisitions and developing new capacities in cooperation with our customers and market needs. We are delighted that he will join the board and continue to support our journey. Since joining in February 2025 as Chief Commercial Officer, Abhy has demonstrated his qualities in understanding the markets, engaging with customers, as well as leading the transformation and integration work. With his industry experience, he will provide competent leadership of Constellation during the next phase, where focus will continue to be on customer needs, growth opportunities and strengthening the operating platform. The board looks forward to the cooperation under his leadership.”

Carlos Rodriguez said: “I am delighted with Abhy’s appointment. He has proven to be an innovative, collaborative and results focused leader with a track record in growing businesses, transformation and operational excellence, together with automation and technology capabilities. Abhy is best positioned and has the Advisory Board’s full support to successfully implement the company’s strategic plan, I wish Abhy all the best. I would like to thank all Constellation employees for their outstanding support and commitment over the past four years.”

Abhy said: “It is an honour and privilege to succeed Carlos as CEO of Constellation. Thanks to his leadership, Constellation is well positioned for the future with a cohesive culture and sound growth pipeline. As incoming CEO, I am committed to leading the talented and hard-working people who make Constellation a great company and continue to generate long-term value. I look forward to continuing our close collaboration with our customers and suppliers to improve the European cold chain market.”

Before joining Constellation, Abhy held board and executive roles at NewCold Coöperatief, a developer and operator of highly automated cold storage warehousing. Prior to that, he spent 11 years in senior executive positions at Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s largest dairy exporter with sales in 130 countries. 

About Constellation: Constellation has become Europe’s leading independent cold storage and logistics provider with a presence in ten European countries, 1.2 million pallet positions of capacity and several expansion projects under implementation. The company is committed to its vision to be Europe’s most trusted logistics partner while maintaining its core values of Trust, Excellence, Entrepreneurship, and One Team. 

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