SUNRISE, Fla. - s4story -- FORT LAUDERDALE, FL | November 11, 2026

Joshua Grasmick, an American technology entrepreneur and AI developer, has achieved the No. 1 worldwide ranking on the BRIGHT Short-Document Reasoning Retrieval Benchmark, outperforming published systems from NVIDIA and other leading artificial intelligence research organizations.

Grasmick's system, GRAIL, achieved a score of 69.4 nDCG@10, securing first place on the official leaderboard. The result places GRAIL ahead of Forward AI Labs, INF, NVIDIA, and research collaborations involving major academic institutions.

When asked about the achievement and what comes next, Grasmick responded, "Within just two days of submitting our results, we were already beating our own record. Reaching number one is an incredible milestone, but what's even more exciting is that we're still improving."

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The achievement represents a significant milestone in reasoning-intensive information retrieval, a field central to the future of artificial intelligence, advanced search, scientific research, and systems capable of identifying information that requires complex logical connections.

Official BRIGHT leaderboard: https://brightbenchmark.github.io/

Research publication: https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en/publications/bright-a-realistic-and-challenging-benchmark-for-reasoning-intens/

Media and investment inquiries:

Joshua Grasmick www.jgrasmick.com