ORIGINS Excellence Cluster

DDN, the global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, has been recognized as a winner of the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards by the Business Intelligence Group for Infinia 2.0—a software data platform that delivers global AI data unification in data centers and multi-clouds.

Microsoft is eager to spotlight innovative organizations like Founderz, a groundbreaking online learning platform that has gone from a bold idea to a leader in AI skilling.

An AI-powered app helping children speak to endangered animals; a tool to use nature to fight climate change; a way to measure forest health; and a method to make decisions to build healthy communities - these four projects are using space data to help nature.

ReviewAI, a product developed by St. John's-based tech company CoLab Software, can comb through data and knowledge of past engineering projects to provide insight, improvements and make sure mistakes found in the past aren't repeated.

Rivers Agile opened a deep tech innovation center in Callery. The center supports robotics and AI technology development. Pittsburgh's robotics cluster is gaining national recognition.

"We're ensuring that breakthrough technologies in AI, robotics, and precision agriculture don't just stay in the lab or on pitch decks."

Coordinated by BSC and supported by EuroHPC and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, DARE brings together 38 leading European partners to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign

Iktos, a global leader in AI-driven drug discovery, has secured a prestigious €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator to advance its AI and robotics synthesis automation technology.