Figure 1. The Mastermind game (left) and its biological counterpart (right). The goal is to break the hidden “code” (top) in as few rounds as possible. In each round, the player queries the system ...

In this latest demonstration, VERSES demonstrates Genius, winning the code-breaking game Mastermind in a side-by-side comparison with China’s leading AI model, DeepSeek’s R1, which has been ...