Ranks among the top-performing agents on OpenAI’s MLE-Bench and sets new performance milestones

NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fractal (www.fractal.ai), a publicly listed global enterprise AI company serving Fortune 500® organizations, today announced the launch of PiEvolve, an evolutionary, agentic engine designed for autonomous machine learning and scientific discovery.

OpenAI MLE-Bench Benchmark

PiEvolve by Fractal ranks among the top-performing agents on OpenAI’s MLE-Bench, a benchmark that evaluates how effectively AI systems can solve real-world machine learning challenges. It is the first evaluated agent to surpass 60 percent in Overall Medal Rate and 80 percent in MLE-Bench-Lite performance, crossing thresholds widely viewed as significant milestones in autonomous machine learning. These results mark a meaningful advance in agentic AI capability.

PiEvolve also combines strong performance with efficiency. Within a standard 24-hour run, it delivers results comparable to systems that require longer runtimes and greater compute. Even after 12 hours, it ranks among the top-performing agents, identifying high-quality solutions early.

Unlike traditional machine learning models that are trained once and then deployed, PiEvolve continuously tests and improves its own solutions until the available compute budget is fully utilized. Built on a graph-structured search architecture, it integrates reasoning, code generation, and validation within a unified iterative process. This enables it to tackle complex, multi-variable optimization problems across supply chains, financial services, and data center operations, where static AI systems often struggle to perform at scale.

“MLE-Bench is widely regarded as the gold standard for evaluating AI agents on real-world machine learning tasks,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-founder, Group Chief Executive and Vice Chairman, Fractal. “PiEvolve’s ranking among the top systems globally is a meaningful validation of our research direction. At Fractal, our ambition has always been to power every human decision in the enterprise. PiEvolve advances that mission by enabling AI systems that continuously improve and deliver measurable business outcomes.”

Key features of PiEvolve include:

• Continuous Optimization: Iteratively evolves candidate solutions, improving performance until computational limits are reached.
• Intelligent Memory: Uses priority-based sampling with decay to avoid local optima and ensure diverse exploration of solution paths.
• Dual Strategy: Improves high-performing solutions while actively debugging weaker ones to elevate overall system performance.
• Production-Ready: Includes Pause and Resume capabilities for long-running workloads and integrates seamlessly into enterprise ML pipelines.
• Graph-Structured Search: Systematically explores reasoning, code, and validation loops to generate and refine solutions.

“PiEvolve ranks among the top agents evaluated on OpenAI’s MLE-Bench, including systems developed by leading global research labs. Achieving top-tier performance on OpenAI’s MLE-Bench is a significant milestone for our research team and reinforces Fractal’s commitment to advancing enterprise-grade AI,” said Suraj Amonkar, Chief AI Research and Platforms Officer at Fractal. “We are building autonomous systems capable of sustained reasoning, self-improvement, and evolutionary learning, bringing next-generation agentic intelligence to real-world machine learning challenges.”

With the launch of PiEvolve, Fractal reinforces its position at the forefront of enterprise AI innovation. PiEvolve brings continuous improvement, efficiency, and production reliability together in a single system, helping organizations solve complex challenges with confidence and scale. For more information, visit https://fractal.ai/ai-research/pi-evolve

About Fractal

Fractal (NSE: FRACTAL) is a publicly listed global enterprise AI company with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise.

Fractal’s suite of businesses includes Asper.ai (enabling interconnected decisions for revenue growth) and Analytics Vidhya (among the world’s largest data science communities). Fractal spun out Qure.ai, a global healthcare AI leader enhancing the rapid identification and management of tuberculosis, lung cancer, and stroke. Fractal’s dedicated AI Research team is focused on foundational AI advancements, including knowledge-based foundational models, reasoning-based systems, and agentic systems. The team has launched successful products, including MarshallGoldsmith.ai, Vaidya.ai, Kalaido.ai, and the open-source reasoning model Fathom-R1-14B and tool-based reasoning model Fathom-DeepResearch.

Fractal employs over 5,000 professionals across global locations, including the United States, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Ukraine, India, Singapore, South Africa, the UAE, and Australia. It has consistently earned recognition as one of India’s Best Companies to Work For (Top 100, 2025), a ‘Great Workplace’ for eight consecutive years, and as one of ‘India’s Best Workplaces for Women’ for five years running by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Fractal was also named a Leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave™ for Customer Analytics Service Providers and earned leadership positions in the Everest Group Peak Matrix Assessment 2025 for AI and Analytics Services, and Information Services Group’s 2024 assessments for Data Engineering and Data Science Services.

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Highly anticipated 2022 vintage follows the celebrated inaugural release

SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Introducing Grange La Chapelle 2022, a powerful blend of the world’s most revered Syrah and Shiraz and the second release from the partnership between La Chapelle and Penfolds Grange. Embodying Australian boldness and French finesse, Grange La Chapelle 2022 is a wine that speaks two languages fluently yet tells one compelling story.

Following the inaugural global release in 2025 at Monnaie de Paris, this vintage marks the evolution of this bold partnership between two legends. A long-standing friendship between Caroline Frey, Chief Winemaker and vigneron, La Chapelle (through to 2024 vintage) and Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker Penfolds Grange first inspired this unexpected union, and shared expertise ultimately showcased what this varietal could achieve aromatically and structurally – coalescing different geographies, soils and winemaking cultures.

The second release is not La Chapelle, and it is not Grange – it is a celebration of what Shiraz can do when two legends, two hemispheres and two winemaking traditions come together. Grange La Chapelle 2022 continues the journey, combining the attributes of French Syrah and Australian Shiraz, expressions that share a common ancestry yet have evolved into distinctive styles from their respective terroirs. 50% La Chapelle France, from the steep, sun drenched slopes of the Hill of Hermitage and 50% Grange made from a collection of select South Australian vineyards: Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Coonawarra – including many old 19th-Century vines. 

While the first release in 2025 debuted Grange La Chapelle, the second release stands as a testament to the harmony, quality and expertise of each House. Peter Gago said, “If 2021 introduced Grange La Chapelle then 2022 welcomes La Chapelle Grange – interchangeably, assuredly, sensitively, convincingly.”

Caroline Frey said, “Grange La Chapelle is a conversation between two hemispheres. With this second vintage, building on the foundation laid in 2021, the identity of the wine is firmly established, carried by the singularity and magic of the 2022 vintage.”

Peter Gago said, “The right things happened at the right times across the two disparate growing seasons. This 50:50 blend has woven a majestic Syrah/Shiraz exemplar. One for the ages.”

This blend continues to offer a true taste of the shared history of Syrah and Shiraz and future possibilities. While this is the second release from the partnership, Grange La Chapelle is intended for future release, mother nature permitting.

A small collective of customers from around the world were again personally invited by both teams to hand sell Grange La Chapelle 2022 to their private customers. The wine is rare, and the make size small.

750ml RRP S$3,200. Visit grangexlachapelle.com for further information.

Press assets can be downloaded here.

NOTES TO EDITOR:                                                                 

About Grange La Chapelle:

Bold and unique. Uniting winemaking cultures, spanning hemispheres and time. Fate. A longstanding friendship between two winemakers created an idea. The idea became a trial. The trial became a wine. And then there were three – 2021 (released), 2022 (bottled), 2023 (bottled) and 2024 (bottled). Who would have thought? Syrah from the legendary Hill of Hermitage, La Chapelle, coupled with Shiraz from esteemed South Australian vineyards, Grange. The blend’s raison d’être: One variety – reunited, reinterpreted, reassembled.  La Chapelle named after the chapel on the top of the mound of granite on the left bank of Rhône, is a revered wine in Tain l’Hermitage, France.  This Syrah from the revered Hermitage appellation is both powerful & mythical, made to last. Today La Chapelle 1978, 1990, 1991 & 2015 vintages are much sought after globally, and the 1961 remains a 20th-Century wine legend.

Grange is named after the cottage at Magill Estate Winery, South Australia (originally established by early settlers Dr Penfold and his wife Mary in 1844). Created in 1951, Grange has enjoyed an unbroken lineage of vintages. It is one of the most consistently produced and celebrated wines in the world. Prized vintages to relish today include 1952, 1962, 2008, 2010 & 2018.

Highly anticipated 2022 vintage follows the celebrated inaugural release

SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Introducing Grange La Chapelle 2022, a powerful blend of the world’s most revered Syrah and Shiraz and the second release from the partnership between La Chapelle and Penfolds Grange. Embodying Australian boldness and French finesse, Grange La Chapelle 2022 is a wine that speaks two languages fluently yet tells one compelling story.

Following the inaugural global release in 2025 at Monnaie de Paris, this vintage marks the evolution of this bold partnership between two legends. A long-standing friendship between Caroline Frey, Chief Winemaker and vigneron, La Chapelle (through to 2024 vintage) and Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker Penfolds Grange first inspired this unexpected union, and shared expertise ultimately showcased what this varietal could achieve aromatically and structurally – coalescing different geographies, soils and winemaking cultures.

The second release is not La Chapelle, and it is not Grange – it is a celebration of what Shiraz can do when two legends, two hemispheres and two winemaking traditions come together. Grange La Chapelle 2022 continues the journey, combining the attributes of French Syrah and Australian Shiraz, expressions that share a common ancestry yet have evolved into distinctive styles from their respective terroirs. 50% La Chapelle France, from the steep, sun drenched slopes of the Hill of Hermitage and 50% Grange made from a collection of select South Australian vineyards: Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Coonawarra – including many old 19th-Century vines. 

While the first release in 2025 debuted Grange La Chapelle, the second release stands as a testament to the harmony, quality and expertise of each House. Peter Gago said, “If 2021 introduced Grange La Chapelle then 2022 welcomes La Chapelle Grange – interchangeably, assuredly, sensitively, convincingly.”

Caroline Frey said, “Grange La Chapelle is a conversation between two hemispheres. With this second vintage, building on the foundation laid in 2021, the identity of the wine is firmly established, carried by the singularity and magic of the 2022 vintage.”

Peter Gago said, “The right things happened at the right times across the two disparate growing seasons. This 50:50 blend has woven a majestic Syrah/Shiraz exemplar. One for the ages.”

This blend continues to offer a true taste of the shared history of Syrah and Shiraz and future possibilities. While this is the second release from the partnership, Grange La Chapelle is intended for future release, mother nature permitting.

A small collective of customers from around the world were again personally invited by both teams to hand sell Grange La Chapelle 2022 to their private customers. The wine is rare, and the make size small.

750ml RRP S$3,200. Visit grangexlachapelle.com for further information.

Press assets can be downloaded here.

NOTES TO EDITOR:                                                                 

About Grange La Chapelle:

Bold and unique. Uniting winemaking cultures, spanning hemispheres and time. Fate. A longstanding friendship between two winemakers created an idea. The idea became a trial. The trial became a wine. And then there were three – 2021 (released), 2022 (bottled), 2023 (bottled) and 2024 (bottled). Who would have thought? Syrah from the legendary Hill of Hermitage, La Chapelle, coupled with Shiraz from esteemed South Australian vineyards, Grange. The blend’s raison d’être: One variety – reunited, reinterpreted, reassembled.  La Chapelle named after the chapel on the top of the mound of granite on the left bank of Rhône, is a revered wine in Tain l’Hermitage, France.  This Syrah from the revered Hermitage appellation is both powerful & mythical, made to last. Today La Chapelle 1978, 1990, 1991 & 2015 vintages are much sought after globally, and the 1961 remains a 20th-Century wine legend.

Grange is named after the cottage at Magill Estate Winery, South Australia (originally established by early settlers Dr Penfold and his wife Mary in 1844). Created in 1951, Grange has enjoyed an unbroken lineage of vintages. It is one of the most consistently produced and celebrated wines in the world. Prized vintages to relish today include 1952, 1962, 2008, 2010 & 2018.

TAIPEI, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Innodisk, a leading provider of industrial-grade memory solutions, announced the CXL Add-in Card (AIC), a major addition to its CXL product portfolio. Innodisk developed this CXL-based expansion card in response to rising memory demands in next-generation computing and the limited scalability of current motherboard designs. Connecting via the widespread and mature PCIe interface, the CXL AIC delivers fast memory access without occupying system DIMM slots. It also provides greater flexibility in memory usage and allocation. Its HHHL form factor, paired with Innodisk’s compact DDR5 RDIMM/RDIMM VLP, unlocks new possibilities for micro data centers and edge systems, especially in latency-critical scenarios such as 5G networking, high-frequency trading, and smart medical imaging.

Flexible Memory Expansion Up to 256GB

The Innodisk CXL AIC features two onboard RDIMM sockets that provide flexible memory expansion up to 256GB (128GB x2), allowing easy capacity adjustment by swapping RDIMM modules based on system needs. By connecting through PCIe slots, it not only preserves the system’s native DIMM slots but also delivers an additional 32GB/s of bandwidth via its PCIe Gen 5 x8 interface. This minimizes latency when the CPU accesses shared memory, enabling faster data flow for bandwidth-intensive applications such as AI inference and edge processing.

CXL 2.0 Capabilities for Dynamic Workloads

As a CXL 2.0 Type 3 memory expansion solution supporting CXL.mem and CXL.io, the Innodisk CXL AIC not only reduces system latency and complexity but also enables memory pooling across multiple hosts, improving overall system efficiency. This makes it particularly well-suited for applications with fluctuating workloads, such as 5G networking and high-frequency trading in financial markets.

Compact Design for Edge

The Innodisk CXL AIC comes in a compact HHHL form factor with an additional FHHL bracket included, ensuring compatibility with various chassis configurations. When paired with Innodisk DDR5 RDIMM VLP memory, it further minimizes space requirements and enhances internal layout flexibility. This optimized design is ideal for space-constrained edge servers and deployments.

A Configurable and Cost-Effective Solution

Building on its leadership in industrial DRAM modules, Innodisk offers the CXL AIC with configurable RDIMM specifications to meet diverse customer requirements. It serves as a reliable, cost-effective edge solution for memory expansion that eliminates the need for expensive motherboard redesigns as system requirements continue to grow.