PANews reported on April 22 that NeoCognition, an AI research lab founded by Ohio State professor Yu Su, announced the completion of a $40 million seed funding round. The round was co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, among others. NeoCognition focuses on developing self-learning AI agents, aiming to enable intelligent agents to continuously learn and build "world models" in any vertical domain, transitioning from general-purpose to rapidly specialized "expert" agents. The company plans to primarily provide enterprise and SaaS companies with agent systems that can be used to build AI employees or enhance existing products. The team currently consists of approximately 15 people, most of whom hold PhDs.