WATERLOO, Ontario, July 31 -- The University of Waterloo posted the following news:

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Simantic scales from Waterloo startup to global AI hardware innovator

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As artificial intelligence (AI) learns to write code, it still struggles to test firmware without access to physical hardware. For University of Waterloo founders Seungmin Hong (BASc '26) and Ahnaf Shahriar (BASc in progress), that challenge represented an opportunity.