INDEPENDENT AI RESEARCH LAB — EST. 2017 · NLINDEPENDENT AI RESEARCH LAB — EST. 2017 · THE NETHERLANDS
First the research, then the companies.
The independent research lab behind RealAI and EarthScan — foundation intelligence for people, and subsurface AI for energy.DKAI Lab is the independent research lab behind RealAI and EarthScan — foundation intelligence for people, and subsurface AI for energy.
N-01 · DOME CRESTN-01 · DOME CREST — Z −1,940 M
N-02 · FAULT A — THROW +160 M
N-03 · BASIN — Z −3,120 M
EARTHSCAN — FIELD 042 · 8,500+ WELLSEARTHSCAN — SUBSURFACE FIELD 042 · 8,500+ WELLS
LIVE ARRAY
2017
FOUNDED — NLFOUNDED — THE NETHERLANDS
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INDEPENDENT VENTURESINDEPENDENT VENTURES — REALAI · EARTHSCAN
8,500+
WELLS — EARTHSCANWELLS ANALYSED — EARTHSCAN
Nº1
CAPSULE-NETS · TF 2017VIRAL CAPSULE-NETS IMPLEMENTATION — TF · 2017
THE LINEAGE — RESEARCH BECOMES COMPANIES
From the Lab
Research core — DKAI Lab · 2017
Research core
DKAI LAB · EST. 2017
CAPSULE NETS → ARiA → HOMINIS
EARTHADAPTNET → VEERNET
CAPSULE NETS → ARiA → HOMINIS
EARTHADAPTNET → VEERNET
HOMINIS → 2024
VEERNET → 2023
HOMINIS → 2024
HOMINIS STACK — DATA-FLOW FIELD · REALAI.EU
RealAI
REALAI.EU ↗The Hominis foundation-model stack — Europe's first human-centered LLM, trained on the Leonardo supercomputer.
SPUN OUT 2024 · FOUNDATION MODELS · BOLOGNA HPC
VEERNET → 2023
SUBSURFACE FIELD 042 — FALSE-COLOUR · EARTHSCAN.IO
EarthScan
EARTHSCAN.IO ↗Subsurface AI for energy — seismic, stratigraphy and well-log intelligence across 8,500+ wells.
SPUN OUT 2023 · SUBSURFACE AI · 8,500+ WELLS
SELECTED WORK — 2017 → TODAY
Research breakthroughs
2017 · OPEN SOURCE · TENSORFLOW
Capsule Networks — the first viral implementation
Hinton's routing-by-agreement, running in public within days of the paper.
2018 · ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS
ARiA — an adaptive activation family
A sigmoid-derived activation with tunable response, ahead of the Swish era.
2020 → 2023 · SEISMIC INTERPRETATION
EarthAdaptNet → VeerNet
Domain adaptation for the subsurface — the line of work that became EarthScan.
EARTHSCAN — THE DATA BAND
8,500 wells, one subsurface field.
Every visual on this site is plotted from the same instrument: EarthScan arrays — transects, well-log tracks, contour fields. Real outputs, not decoration.
DEPTH RANGE −4,120 M · CONTOUR INTERVAL 90 M · 14 BASINS · GR / RES / DT TRACKS
TRANSECT A–A′ — ROW 45TRANSECT A–A′ — ROW 45 · THROUGH DOME CREST
CREST
WELL 042-C — GR · RES · DT
NEWSROOM
Latest from the lab
10 JUL 2026 · RESEARCH
HOMINIS ships on Leonardo — Europe's first human-centered LLMTrained on the Leonardo supercomputer in Bologna, HOMINIS is built around a simple inversion: model people's context first, tokens second. The stack now anchors RealAI.
