AIM Intelligence, an artificial intelligence security company, said on the 23rd that it had been selected as one of the top 10 companies in the Asia-Pacific region at the Nvidia Inception Grand Challenge 2026.
The Nvidia Inception Grand Challenge is a competition in which AI startups using Nvidia technology compete on technical capability and business viability, with the aim of identifying promising companies. About 10,000 startups from the Asia-Pacific region took part this year. AIM Intelligence took first place in the special award category sponsored by Nebius, a global AI cloud company, and also won an audience choice award based on on-site voting.
At the competition, AIM Intelligence presented AI security technology spanning generative AI, agentic AI and physical AI. It stressed that end-to-end security and control systems are needed as AI moves beyond generating answers to making its own judgments and acting within corporate systems and physical environments.
As an answer, the company presented its AIM Control Loop solution, which links the discovery of AI vulnerabilities to controls in live operating environments. Rather than stopping at a one-time safety assessment, the system continuously identifies and controls risks in AI systems and then strengthens defenses through renewed attack testing, forming a closed loop.
The AIM Control Loop finds vulnerabilities through Stinger, an automated red-teaming platform, and controls them through Starport, a real-time AI security solution. Stinger searches for vulnerabilities and risky behavior across text, voice, images and video, as well as in AI agent and physical AI environments. Starport detects and controls risks in real time not only in AI inputs and outputs but also in tool calls, system execution and physical actions.
The award also gives AIM Intelligence automatic entry to the finals of Slingshot, a global startup pitching competition held in Singapore.
"As technology advances rapidly, AI is evolving beyond the existing order centered on simple text into an actor that directly affects corporate systems and the physical world," said Park Ha-eon, chief technology officer at AIM Intelligence. "We will use this challenge as a springboard to become a global AI security and control company covering both agentic AI and physical AI."
