# Maisa AI > --- ## Pages - [AI Computer](https://maisa.ai/ai-computer/): An AI Computer is a new computing paradigm, where AI acts as the core orchestrator. It manages tools, data, and tasks to deliver real outcomes, not just answers - [Agentic Process Automation](https://maisa.ai/agentic-process-automation/): Agentic Process Automation extends automation beyond repetitive tasks, enabling AI agents to handle exceptions, and complex decisions. - [Chain of Work](https://maisa.ai/chain-of-work/): Chain of Work logs every AI decision and action, creating deterministic workflows that prevent hallucinations and ensure transparent, reliable outputs. - [AI Agents](https://maisa.ai/ai-agents/): AI agents are systems that plan, act with tools, and learn, covering key components, capabilities, challenges, and the role of digital workers in business. - [AI Hallucinations](https://maisa.ai/ai-hallucinations/): AI hallucinations produce plausible but false content; causes and fixes include larger data, CoT logic, RAG grounding, and Maisa’s deterministic approach. - [Digital Workers](https://maisa.ai/digital-workers/): Digital Workers are AI agents for business processes that adapt, collaborate, and log every step, providing accountable, transparent automation. - [Introducing Vinci KPU](https://maisa.ai/research/): Comprehensive overview of Maisa AI's Vinci KPU. 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Delegate to Digital Workers that continuously learn and improve, ensure full auditability, and retain the know-how of your processes. --- ## Posts - [Why we built Maisa this way: scientific proof we're on the right track](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/science-behind-maisa-architecture/): The architecture behind Maisa is the result of deliberate choices informed by research. A growing body of work has made... - [Digital Workers: bringing accountability to AI agency](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/digital-workers/): We keep hearing the term "AI Agents" everywhere these days. LinkedIn is flooded with posts about them. Tech conferences can't... - [What happens when AI forgets? Context windows and their limits](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/ai-context-limitations/): AI can write emails, summarize research, or help you brainstorm ideas. It feels smart and useful. But for any of... - [Advancing our vision for Accountable AI together with Microsoft](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/microsoft-partnership/): Maisa joins Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and becomes a Strategic Partner, advancing Accountable AI and expanding access to its Digital Workers via the Azure Marketplace. - [Black Box AI. How can we trust what we can’t see?](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/black-box-ai/): Lack of transparency in black box AI models complicates business decision-making, regulatory adherence, and trust in outcomes derived from internal data. - [The AI Computer: overcoming fundamental AI challenges](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/ai-computer-overcoming-ai-challenges/): The AI Computer marks a shift in computing, where AI moves beyond chatbots to orchestrate tasks, tools, and processes. - [What is Agentic Process Automation? The next frontier of Intelligent Automation](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/what-is-agentic-process-automation/): At the core of every organization lies a foundation of business processes. While essential, these processes often involve mundane, repetitive... - [Making AI accountable: Maisa raises pre-seed round](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/maisa-raises-pre-seed-round/): Back in March, we introduced the first version of the KPU, setting new benchmarks that surpassed leading models. Since then,... - [Introducing Vinci KPU](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/vinci-kpu/): Comprehensive overview of Maisa AI's Vinci KPU. Read detailed benchmark comparisons, architecture improvements, and new features. Includes performance analysis on GPQA, MATH, HumanEval, and ProcBenc. - [Hello world](https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/hello-world/): Hello World In recent periods, the community has observed an almost exponential enhancement in the proficiency of Artificial Intelligence, notably... --- # # Detailed Content ## Pages ### AI Computer > An AI Computer is a new computing paradigm, where AI acts as the core orchestrator. It manages tools, data, and tasks to deliver real outcomes, not just answers - Published: 2025-05-09 - Modified: 2025-05-09 - URL: https://maisa.ai/ai-computer/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### Agentic Process Automation > Agentic Process Automation extends automation beyond repetitive tasks, enabling AI agents to handle exceptions, and complex decisions. - Published: 2025-05-09 - Modified: 2025-05-09 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-process-automation/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### Chain of Work > Chain of Work logs every AI decision and action, creating deterministic workflows that prevent hallucinations and ensure transparent, reliable outputs. - Published: 2025-04-21 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://maisa.ai/chain-of-work/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### AI Agents > AI agents are systems that plan, act with tools, and learn, covering key components, capabilities, challenges, and the role of digital workers in business. - Published: 2025-04-21 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://maisa.ai/ai-agents/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### AI Hallucinations > AI hallucinations produce plausible but false content; causes and fixes include larger data, CoT logic, RAG grounding, and Maisa’s deterministic approach. - Published: 2025-04-16 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://maisa.ai/ai-hallucinations/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### Digital Workers > Digital Workers are AI agents for business processes that adapt, collaborate, and log every step, providing accountable, transparent automation. - Published: 2025-04-11 - Modified: 2025-04-28 - URL: https://maisa.ai/digital-workers/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### Introducing Vinci KPU > Comprehensive overview of Maisa AI's Vinci KPU. Read detailed benchmark comparisons, architecture improvements, and new features. Includes performance analysis on GPQA, MATH, HumanEval, and ProcBenc. - Published: 2024-11-26 - Modified: 2025-04-15 - URL: https://maisa.ai/research/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- ### Legal Notice - Published: 2024-10-28 - Modified: 2025-03-26 - URL: https://maisa.ai/legal-notice/ - Translation Priorities: Optional "This legal notice (the "Legal Notice") governs access to and navigation of the website www. maisa. ai (the "Website"). The Website is owned by Maisa Inc. , ("Maisa" or "we"), whose identifying and contact information is as follows: Address: 8 The Green STE R, Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901. Contact email address: contact@Maisa. ai REG & C. o. Incorporation: State of Delaware, Division of Incorporations SR20233303552FN7632442 This Legal Notice is binding for anyone accessing the Website (the "user" or "you"). 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Delegate to Digital Workers that continuously learn and improve, ensure full auditability, and retain the know-how of your processes. - Published: 2024-10-25 - Modified: 2025-05-09 - URL: https://maisa.ai/ - Translation Priorities: Optional --- --- ## Posts ### Why we built Maisa this way: scientific proof we're on the right track - Published: 2025-04-24 - Modified: 2025-04-24 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/science-behind-maisa-architecture/ - Translation Priorities: Optional The architecture behind Maisa is the result of deliberate choices informed by research. A growing body of work has made it clear: while large language models offer impressive generative power, they fall short in several critical areas when used in isolation. Maisa’s strategic design responds directly to those gaps. Below is an overview of how each component is supported by scientific insight. Bridging reasoning and execution 📚 ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models ReAct remains one of the most important foundations in the evolution of agentic AI. It introduced a core loop: reason, act, observe and repeat. This core helped reframe LLMs as active decision-makers rather than passive responders. This concept triggered the shift toward treating AI systems as agents capable of planning, adapting, and executing tasks in dynamic environments. While it's widely implemented today, its influence remains central to the architecture of AI systems designed for real-world decision-making. 📚 Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models LLMs are prone to fluent but inaccurate output. This limitation stems from architecture, not data. 📚 Steering LLMs Between Code Execution and Textual Reasoning 📚 Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents 📚 Code to Think, Think to Code 📚 Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator These studies confirm the advantage of pairing LLMs with code execution: performance improves through verifiable logic, runtime validation, and structured task decomposition. While visible reasoning chains can appear coherent, they often mask logical gaps. Reliability increases when reasoning is grounded in execution, where each step is tested, not just described. 📚 Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful In fact, this other paper highlights and confirms that exposing reasoning chains through techniques like Chain-of-Thought prompting does not ensure factual accuracy. The presence of a detailed explanation can create a false sense of confidence, even when the underlying logic is flawed or unsupported. The model may appear to reason more deeply, but the steps often serve as post-hoc rationalizations rather than evidence-based logic. This distinction is critical: coherence doesn’t equal truth. Executable validation remains essential for ensuring that each step reflects actual reasoning. How this shapes Maisa: The research outlined in these papers affirms a path we had already taken. Each finding reinforces architectural choices we made early on. Confirming that the principles behind Maisa’s design are supported by emerging scientific consensus and designed to operate under real-world enterprise conditions. At the core is a reasoning engine structured around iterative decision-making loops, where each action is informed by observation and continuously adjusted until a defined goal is met. Instead of following fixed instructions, the system adapts continuously as conditions change and new inputs emerge. To support this, Maisa integrates a live code interpreter within the reasoning process, enabling the system to test assumptions, validate outcomes, and apply logical operations as part of its workflow. Rather than relying on text-based reasoning alone, every step can be executed, verified, and corrected in real time. Code is fundamental, not an... --- ### Digital Workers: bringing accountability to AI agency - Published: 2025-04-15 - Modified: 2025-04-15 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/digital-workers/ - Translation Priorities: Optional We keep hearing the term "AI Agents" everywhere these days. LinkedIn is flooded with posts about them. Tech conferences can't stop talking about them. Every startup pitch seems to include them. And yet, when we ask ten different people what an "AI Agent" actually is, we get ten completely different answers. This isn't merely semantics. It's a problem with deep historical roots. The concept of "agency" has challenged thinkers since ancient times. Aristotle explored it through his notion of "efficient cause", what initiates action. Plato examined it through questions of intention and purpose. The Stoics considered the relationship between individual action and natural order. These ancient philosophers recognized something we're rediscovering today: defining agency is inherently complex. It touches on intention, autonomy, purpose, and responsibility, concepts that resist simple definition. The "AI Agent" marketing landscape Let's be candid: the term "AI Agent" has become almost meaningless. Some vendors apply the label to sophisticated chatbots. Others use it for basic automation with a thin AI veneer. The enthusiasm has outpaced the clarity. We've sat through countless demos where the presenter uses "autonomous agent" language, but what they're showing is just a rigid workflow with some LLM responses inserted at key points. Meanwhile, back in the real world, teams are drowning in mundane tasks. How many hours did your organization lose last month to spreadsheet updates? Data entry? Report generation? Following up on routine processes? Likely more than anyone would prefer to acknowledge. All that time could have been invested in the work that actually moves the needle: creative problem-solving, relationship building and strategic thinking. What we actually mean when we say "agent" When we talk about a true AI Agent, we're talking about something specific: a system where the AI model itself (usually an LLM) actively manages its own workflow. It makes decisions about what to do next based on the current situation, not just following pre-programmed steps. It's like the difference between a simple calculator and a financial advisor. The calculator performs operations you explicitly request, while the advisor analyzes your situation, considers multiple factors, and recommends appropriate actions to achieve your goals. What's commonly marketed as "agents" today are often just "LLMs with tool access. " This reductive approach is like defining a human as "a body with hands. " Such simplistic definitions miss the essence of true agency: independent judgment, adaptation, and purposeful action. A genuine AI agent needs to be much more than just an LLM that can call functions. The missing piece: accountability Here's what concerns us most: as companies rush to deploy these so-called "agents," we're creating an accountability vacuum. We recently spoke with a banking executive who perfectly summed up the problem: "I can't hand over loan decisions to a system that can't explain itself. " She's absolutely right. In business, we need systems that are: Predictably reliable day in, day out Completely transparent about their actions and decisions Naturally integrated with how our teams already work We wouldn't trust our mortgage approval to... --- ### What happens when AI forgets? Context windows and their limits - Published: 2025-04-14 - Modified: 2025-04-23 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/ai-context-limitations/ - Translation Priorities: Optional AI can write emails, summarize research, or help you brainstorm ideas. It feels smart and useful. But for any of that to work, the AI needs context—the right information, at the right time, to generate a relevant output. The context window is the space where the model processes information. It holds the relevant details the user provides—what the model needs to understand and complete a task. Like short-term memory, it’s limited. If too much information is added, parts can be pushed out or forgotten, which affects the quality of the output. Context windows play a key role in how language models operate, but they come with built-in limits. Like us, these models have a limited attention span. And just like us, when they lose track of key details, their output can go off course. Let’s look at how this works—and why it matters. What is a context window? (and why it matters) Think of a context window like a whiteboard. It’s where the AI writes down what it needs to focus on—a mix of your instructions, the task at hand, and anything it has said before. But space is limited. Once the board is full, something has to be erased to make room for new information. Technically, the context window is the maximum amount of text the model can process at once. These chunks of text are called tokens. Tokens are chunks of words, and every input or output takes up space. If there’s too much to fit, earlier parts get cut off. You’ve probably noticed it before without realizing. Maybe ChatGPT forgets part of your request in a long conversation. Or it misses key details when analyzing a document. That’s usually a context limit. Why does this matter? Because even the smartest AI can’t give good answers without the right context. In business use cases like generating reports, handling customer queries, or reviewing contracts,the model’s output is only as good as what it can see. If the context is incomplete, the results will be too. The real challenge: attention, not just size Context windows have grown dramatically. For instance, models like Gemini Pro can handle contexts as large as 2 million tokens—that's about 5,000 pages of academic content at roughly 300 words per page. With context windows becoming so large, capacity is no longer the main challenge. The real challenge is how these models pay attention. AI language models use attention mechanisms, which determine what parts of the input to focus on. However, recent research like the paper "Lost in the Middle" shows that these mechanisms have a "U shaped" attention pattern—performance is strongest at the beginning and end of the context window, with a noticeable drop in the middle. This means information located centrally in a large context may be processed less effectively. Changing the position of relevant information within an LLM's input context affects performance in a U-shaped curve. Models perform best when relevant information is placed at the very beginning (primacy bias) or end (recency bias),... --- ### Advancing our vision for Accountable AI together with Microsoft > Maisa joins Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and becomes a Strategic Partner, advancing Accountable AI and expanding access to its Digital Workers via the Azure Marketplace. - Published: 2025-04-07 - Modified: 2025-04-07 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/microsoft-partnership/ - Translation Priorities: Optional We are excited to announce that Maisa has been selected by Microsoft to become part of the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub and recognized as a Microsoft Strategic Partner. Pushing forward our vision for Digital Workers This partnership reinforces our commitment to developing Accountable AI and Digital Workers that automate complex business processes. By tapping into Microsoft's extensive Azure infrastructure and specialized resources, Maisa gains powerful new capabilities to enhance the reliability, traceability, and performance of our AI technology. Strengthening Accountable AI This collaboration with Microsoft supports our goal of building trustworthy, transparent AI solutions. We continue working to advance AI systems that companies can rely on to automate processes, delegating to accountable Digital Workers. --- ### Black Box AI. How can we trust what we can’t see? > Lack of transparency in black box AI models complicates business decision-making, regulatory adherence, and trust in outcomes derived from internal data. - Published: 2025-04-01 - Modified: 2025-04-01 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/black-box-ai/ - Translation Priorities: Optional Artificial Intelligence is transforming critical decisions that affect businesses and people's lives, from approving loans and hiring candidates to medical diagnoses. Yet, many AI systems operate as "black boxes," providing outcomes without revealing how they were reached. This raises a fundamental question: how can we trust decisions made by systems whose reasoning we can't clearly understand? AI models learn from vast amounts of data, predicting outcomes without transparent, step-by-step logic. While their capabilities are impressive, this hidden reasoning creates uncertainty and potential risks. For businesses, relying on AI systems whose decisions are opaque can lead to serious accountability issues. If an AI makes a critical decision, how can companies confidently explain or justify it to employees, customers, or regulators? Addressing this trust gap isn't merely about compliance, it's about confidence and clarity in decision-making processes that shape real lives and business outcomes. Why is AI opaque? AI systems differ fundamentally from traditional software, which relies on clearly defined rules. Instead, AI learns directly from vast datasets. These models don’t have explicit instructions or human-understandable logic guiding their decisions. At their core, AI models use billions of interconnected parameters to convert inputs into outputs through complex mathematical calculations. This method is inherently probabilistic, meaning decisions are based on statistical patterns, not logical reasoning. With billions of these parameters adjusting simultaneously, tracking exactly how or why a specific output was produced becomes practically impossible. Unlike human decision-making, AI doesn't follow structured reasoning steps. It identifies correlations and patterns in data, predicting outcomes without explicit explanations. This absence of clear reasoning pathways means that decisions from AI systems often appear arbitrary, opaque, and difficult to interpret or justify. The risks of black-box AI in business Businesses rely increasingly on AI to automate important tasks, yet the opacity of these systems presents clear practical challenges. False confidence and AI hallucinations A major risk of opaque AI is "hallucinations," where AI produces seemingly accurate but entirely incorrect information. These false positives arise when the AI fills knowledge gaps or handles unclear inputs. For example, customer support chatbots might confidently provide false policy details, leading directly to confusion and complaints. Accountability gaps Opaque AI creates accountability issues. Traditional software clearly logs every decision step, making errors easy to track and correct. Black-box AI systems don't offer this clarity. When decision-making relies on hidden AI processes, identifying the exact point of failure becomes difficult, slowing corrections and process improvements. Legal and compliance risks Businesses must increasingly explain automated decisions clearly due to regulations like GDPR. If an AI-driven system, such as a credit scoring tool, makes decisions without understandable reasoning, businesses risk facing regulatory actions, customer complaints, or legal disputes. Uncertainty working with internal data and knowledge Businesses typically want AI to incorporate their specialized data and internal expertise clearly. However, black-box AI models obscure how proprietary business information is actually used. Without clear visibility, enterprises can't confirm that internal knowledge is applied correctly, risking inaccurate outcomes or impractical recommendations. Explainable AI (XAI) methods Several methods within... --- ### The AI Computer: overcoming fundamental AI challenges > The AI Computer marks a shift in computing, where AI moves beyond chatbots to orchestrate tasks, tools, and processes. - Published: 2025-03-05 - Modified: 2025-03-20 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/ai-computer-overcoming-ai-challenges/ - Translation Priorities: Optional Andrej Karpathy's LLM OS concept: envisioning large language models as the core of future operating systems Throughout history, humans have developed computational systems, formal logic, and scientific methods to verify our thinking. Can we do the same for AI? All technological revolutions required us to think outside the box, reimagine how we used to do things, and design new architectures and systems. AI is no different. We are now familiar with the power of AI, but every AI-native system lives in a chat-based interface. An instruction fine-tuned LLM so we can have conversations with this technology and help us through a wide array of tasks. However, in this configuration, we see some interesting add-ons. With ChatGPT, the most well-known AI-native system (a chatbot), the LLM uses some tools depending on the task: internet search, code executor, dalle for image generation, internal memory storage, and retrieval. Here we see an initial approach to the next computing paradigm, one where AI is not an assistant that lives in a chatbot interface but an orchestrator. Where is AI headed? how can we leverage the intelligence of this technology to reach another level? Looking at LLMs as chatbots is the same as looking at early computers as calculators. We're seeing an emergence of a whole new computing paradigm. Andrej Karpathy AI as an orchestrator Before operating systems, using a computer meant manually loading programs, writing commands in raw machine code or punch cards, and managing memory and processing power directly. Users had to allocate resources, track execution, and reload programs for each task. This made computing inefficient, time-consuming, and inaccessible to anyone without specialized technical expertise. Operating systems transformed computing by automating memory allocation, process management, and data storage. This software layer creates abstraction between users and hardware, eliminating the need to understand technical peculiarities. By allowing people to interact with computers at a higher level, operating systems made computing accessible and laid the foundation for personal technology, letting users focus on their tasks rather than the underlying mechanics. At the core of every operating system is the kernel, the component that coordinates processes and manages system resources. The AI Computer takes this further by making AI the kernel—the technology that orchestrates tasks, tools, and processes autonomously. Instead of merely executing predefined instructions, it becomes agentic, meaning it can independently make decisions and take actions to achieve a goal. A computer with agency Traditional computers operate on static, predefined logic—they execute commands exactly as programmed, following a structured set of rules to process user inputs. Every task requires a sequence of actions—clicks, keystrokes, and manual navigation—where the OS provides abstraction layers to help users manage files, applications, and processes more efficiently. However, the responsibility of executing tasks still lies entirely with the user. The AI Computer shifts this paradigm by embedding intelligence at its core. Instead of merely processing user commands, it understands objectives, interprets intent, and autonomously orchestrates the necessary steps to achieve the desired outcome. This represents a deeper level of abstraction—one... --- ### What is Agentic Process Automation? The next frontier of Intelligent Automation - Published: 2025-02-20 - Modified: 2025-03-27 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/what-is-agentic-process-automation/ - Translation Priorities: Optional At the core of every organization lies a foundation of business processes. While essential, these processes often involve mundane, repetitive tasks that take time and resources away from more valuable contributions. Humans have always sought ways to overcome repetitive work. The Industrial Revolution brought machines to handle physical labor. The rise of computers and spreadsheets transformed how we process information. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) marked the first major leap in digital automation, enabling software to handle repetitive tasks at scale. Yet today, businesses still find themselves flooded with mundane, manual work. Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The origins Robotic Process Automation (RPA) represented the first wave of digital automation by programming software robots to replicate human actions — clicking buttons, entering data, and moving information between systems using predefined rules. These software bots excel at executing repetitive sequences, reducing manual effort in rule-based workflows. Industry leaders like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, and ServiceNow have helped enterprises automate large-scale structured workflows. The banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sectors have been among the biggest adopters, as a large portion of their back-office operations rely on rigid, repetitive administrative tasks such as data entry and document processing. However, RPA hits a ceiling when confronted with tasks requiring cognitive skills or handling unstructured data—the kind of work that fills most knowledge workers' days. Agentic Process Automation (APA). The next frontier in Intelligent Automation Agentic Process Automation (APA) relies on AI-driven agents to handle business processes autonomously. These agents interpret context, learn continuously, and adapt their approach based on changing conditions. Their self-healing capabilities allow them to detect and resolve process issues automatically, adjusting workflows when problems arise. While traditional automation follows fixed rules, APA can tackle unpredictable tasks and make informed decisions, expanding automation into areas that require flexibility and judgment. APA systems focus on objectives rather than predefined steps. You specify the desired outcome, and the system creates its own execution plan, leveraging available tools and resources to complete the task. With the right tools and context, AI Agents can dynamically design and execute workflows based on natural language instructions and company guidelines, adapting in real-time without relying on fixed instructions. Benefits of Agentic Process Automation Self-Healing: Detects and corrects errors autonomously, minimizing downtime and reducing maintenance efforts. Adaptability: Handles open-ended tasks, changing conditions, and unexpected scenarios. Intelligence: Goes beyond rule-based execution by reasoning over unstructured data, making informed decisions, and generating insights. Cost-Effective: Requires fewer resources and less time to build, deploy, and maintain than traditional automation systems. The challenge with Intelligent Automation The core of agentic systems is to reduce manual intervention, but full autonomy is not practical for every use case. Ensuring reliability requires the right guardrails, allowing effective collaboration between humans and technology. This balance is essential for maintaining control and trust as AI agents take on more complex workflows. Then we face the opaqueness and reliability challenges of AI systems. Built on probabilistic models, they provide limited visibility into decisions while being prone to hallucinations and inconsistent... --- ### Making AI accountable: Maisa raises pre-seed round - Published: 2024-12-25 - Modified: 2025-03-18 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/maisa-raises-pre-seed-round/ - Translation Priorities: Optional Back in March, we introduced the first version of the KPU, setting new benchmarks that surpassed leading models. Since then, our technology has advanced with the launch of the Vinci KPU, our team has grown, and we’ve welcomed our first customers. Yet, the core challenge in the AI market remains unchanged: a persistent lack of accountability, reliability and transparency in AI systems. Manu Romero & David Villalón The trust problem in AI Generative AI lacks accountability. Techniques like Chain-of-Thought reasoning, RAGs, and multiagent systems aim to address more sophisticated challenges but still rely on probabilistic predictions, not deterministic computations. AI is unlocking opportunities across countless domains, but the complex world of business demands greater accountability. Mission-critical tasks require not only answers but traceable, evidence-based processes to reach them. Without these, we risk hallucinations—fabricated outputs that render AI results unreliable. This lack of trustworthiness is why fewer than 6% of corporations use AI for anything beyond basic tasks like question-and-answer bots. What we are building We believe the solution isn’t in refining existing approaches but in creating a new kind of computing system—one that combines AI's creative problem-solving with the determinism of traditional computational systems. With Maisa, you can create bulletproof AI Agents. These are a new generation of Digital Workers that follow natural language instructions to achieve specific outcomes and goals, making intelligent and reliable automation a reality. With the best behind us We are fortunate to be backed by visionary investors committed to advancing our mission. Our pre-seed round brought in $5 million, led by NFX and joined by Village Global, the venture fund backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos. This funding was further supported by Sequoia's Scout Fund ,and DeepMind PM Lukas Haas, and other angel investors. This funding enables us to continue developing our product and expanding our research initiatives. We’re also genuinely grateful for the recognition our work has received, including a recent feature in Forbes that highlights this important milestone for us. Maisa is going to be a major player in Agentic Process Automation (APA) helping businesses across the world transform their core, business-critical functions through AI. It will allow them to work faster, more efficiently and achieve new and radical ways of operating. Anna Piñol, NFX David and the Maisa team are building a transformative technology to turn AI agents into actual workers that are capable of reasoning through complex workflows. We're super thrilled to be a part of their journey and are very excited to see the new benchmarks and enterprise traction Max Kilberg, Village Global Come join us If you are interested in joining our mission of making AI accountable, visit our careers page #page_section_71 a{font-size:17px ! important;}#page_section_71 p{line-height:27px ! important;font-size:17px ! important;} --- ### Introducing Vinci KPU > Comprehensive overview of Maisa AI's Vinci KPU. Read detailed benchmark comparisons, architecture improvements, and new features. Includes performance analysis on GPQA, MATH, HumanEval, and ProcBenc. - Published: 2024-11-26 - Modified: 2025-02-07 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/vinci-kpu/ - Translation Priorities: Optional Introduction On March 14, 2024, at Maisa AI, we announced our AI system to the world, enabling users to build AI/LLM-based solutions without worrying about the inherent issues of these models (such as hallucinations, being up-to-date, or context window constraints) thanks to our innovative architecture known as the Knowledge Processing Unit (KPU). In addition to user feedback, the benchmarks on which we evaluated our system demonstrated its power, achieving state-of-the-art results in several of them, such as MATH, GSM8k, DROP, and BBH— in some cases, clearly surpassing the top LLMs of the time. Vinci KPU Since March, we have been proactively addressing inference-time compute limitations and scalability requirements, paving the way for seamless integration with tools and continuous learning. Today, we are excited to announce that we have evolved the project we launched in March and are pleased to present the second version of our KPU, known as Vinci KPU. This version matches and even surpasses leading LLMs, such as the new Claude Sonnet 3. 5 and OpenAI’s o1, on challenging benchmarks like GPQA Diamond, MATH, HumanEval, and ProcBench. What’s new on the Vinci KPU (v2)? Before discussing the updates in v2, let’s do a quick recap of the v1 architecture. KPU OS Architecture Our architecture consists of three main components: the Reasoning Engine, which orchestrates the system's problem-solving capabilities; the Execution Engine, which processes and executes instructions; and the Virtual Context Window, which manages information flow and memory. In this second version, we've made significant improvements across all components: Reasoning Engine Improvement: We have enhanced the KPU kernel, furthering our commitment to positioning the LLM as the intelligent core of our OS Architecture. This advancement allows for more sophisticated reasoning and better orchestration of system components. Execution Engine Enhancements: We have successfully integrated cutting-edge test-time compute techniques and made the execution engine more robust, secure, and scalable. This ensures reliable performance while maintaining high-security standards for tool integration and external connections. Virtual Context Window Refinements: We have refined our Virtual Context Window through improved metadata creation and LLM-friendly indexing. This enhancement optimizes how information flows through the system and lays the groundwork for unlimited context and continuous learning capabilities. KPU Architecture Benefits What makes these results particularly significant is that they're achieved by our KPU OS, acting as a reasoning engine, which focuses on understanding the path to solutions rather than providing answers. As main benefits, we can highlight: Model Agnostic Architecture (Better base models, better performance) Full multi-step traceability: configurable observability: Debug mode, visual representation, et. al. Provides better human-in-the-loop and over-the-loop control. Mitigate, almost fully eliminates, hallucinations: While this approach minimizes AI-generated inaccuracies, it may still encounter issues like errors in tool execution, incorrect data sources, or suboptimal approaches to solving the problem. Lower Latency to resolve problems than other systems in the market. Cost-efficient (up to 40x times cheaper than RAG, reasoning engines and Large Reasoning Models). Fully flexible and customizable with out-of-the-box functionalities: Unstructured data management, tools integrations, data processing... Autonomous execution with self-recovery/self-healing. It... --- ### Hello world - Published: 2024-03-15 - Modified: 2025-01-09 - URL: https://maisa.ai/agentic-insights/hello-world/ - Translation Priorities: Optional Hello World In recent periods, the community has observed an almost exponential enhancement in the proficiency of Artificial Intelligence, notably in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs). The application of diverse pre-training methodologies to Transformer-based architectures utilizing extensive and superior quality datasets, followed by meticulous fine-tuning during both Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback/Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Imitation Feedback (RLHF/RLAIF) stages, has culminated in the development of models. These models not only achieve superior performance metrics across various benchmarks but also provide substantial utility in everyday applications for individuals, encompassing both conversational interfaces and API-driven services. These language models, based on that architecture, have several innate/inherent problems that persist no matter how much they advance their reasoning capacity or the number of tokens they can work with. Hallucinations. When a query is given to an LLM, the veracity of the response cannot be 100% guaranteed, no matter how many billions of parameters the model in question has. This is due to the intrinsic token-generating nature of the model, that generates the most likely token, which might not be a factual reason for the response to be trustable . Context limit. Lately, more models are appearing that are capable of handling more tokens, but we must wonder: at what cost? The "Attention" mechanism of the Transformer Architecture has a quadratic spatio-temporal complexity. This implies that as the information sequence we wish to analyze grows, both the processing time and memory demand increase proportionally. Not to mention the problems that arise with this type of model, such as the famous "Lost in the middle" , which means that sometimes the model is unable to retrieve key information if it is "in the middle" within that context. Up-to-date. The pre-training phase of an LLM inherently limits the data up to a certain date. This limitation affects the model's ability to provide current information. Asking the model about events or developments after its pre-training period may lead to inaccurate responses, unless external mechanisms are used to update or supplement the model's knowledge base. Limited capability to interact with “digital world”. LLMs are fundamentally language-based systems, lacking the ability to connect with external services. This limitation can pose challenges in tackling complex problems, as they have restricted abilities to interact with files, APIs, systems, or other external software. Architectural Overview The architecture we have named KPU (Knowledge Processing Unit) has the following main components. Reasoning Engine. It is the "brain" of the KPU, which orchestrates a step-by-step plan to solve the user's task. To design the plan, it relies on an LLM or VLM and available tools. The LLM is plug-and-play, currently extensively tested with GPT-4 Turbo. Execution Engine. Receives commands from the Reasoning Engine which it executes and whose result is sent back to the Reasoning Engine as feedback for re-planning. Virtual Context Window. It manages the input and output of data and information between the Reasoning engine and the Execution engine, ensuring that information arrives at the Reasoning... --- ---