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AI: The Somnium Files

AI: The Somnium Files is a 2019 Spike Chunsoft detective visual novel by Kotaro Uchikoshi (Zero Escape), following Kaname Date and his AI eye Aiba through dream-dive Somnium puzzles; sequels nirvanA Initiative (2022) and No Sleep for Kaname Date (2025).

AI² Robotics

AI² Robotics is a Chinese embodied-AI robotics startup founded in Shenzhen in 2023 by Guo Yandong, known for its AlphaBot wheeled humanoid robot and AlphaBrain foundation model.

AI2-THOR

AI2-THOR is an open-source interactive 3D simulator of household scenes, released in 2017 by the Allen Institute for AI as a cheap, safe proxy for real-robot experiments.

AI21 Labs

AI21 Labs is an Israeli AI company founded in 2017, known for the Jurassic models and the Jamba hybrid architecture, which retrenched to its Maestro agent platform in 2026.

AI21 Labs funding

AI21 Labs funding is the record of capital raised by AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv enterprise-LLM company, totaling $336 million by November 2023 at a $1.4 billion valuation.

AI2BMD

AI2BMD (AI-powered ab initio biomolecular dynamics) is a molecular dynamics system from Microsoft Research that simulates proteins of over 10,000 atoms with quantum accuracy, orders of magnitude faster than DFT.

AI5FMHFSPRFSOE trial

The AI5FMHFSPRFSOE trial, registered as NCT07397520, was a completed phase 4 trial in Mexico City testing weekly 5-fluorouracil injections for hypertrophic periocular scars from trauma or surgery.

AIA contract documents

AIA contract documents are standardized agreements and forms for the design and construction industry, published by the American Institute of Architects since 1888 and organized into numbered series by project delivery method.

AIA Gold Medal

The AIA Gold Medal is the highest annual honor given by the American Institute of Architects for a body of work with lasting influence on architecture.

AIA Group

AIA Group Limited, formerly American International Assurance, is a Hong Kong-headquartered life and health insurer operating in 18 markets across Asia, tracing its origins to Shanghai in 1919.

AIACR

The AIACR, founded in Paris in 1904, was the international federation of automobile clubs that governed Grand Prix racing until it became the FIA in 1946.

AIADMK-led Alliance

The AIADMK-led Alliance (அஇஅதிமுக கூட்டணி) is a Tamil Nadu political coalition around the AIADMK, allied with the BJP-led NDA (with PMK and AMMK) since 1998, with breakups in 1999, 2004, and 2023 and a 2025 reunion for the 2026 Assembly election.

Aiah

Aiah (Maraiah Queen Arceta) is a Filipino singer and main visual of BINI, the P-pop group. Born in Cebu, she first gained recognition as a beauty queen in 2018.

Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi Roman villa

Aiano-Torraccia di Chiusi Roman villa: late-antique villa near San Gimignano, Siena, Tuscany, occupied 3rd-7th centuries AD, with a hexalobate hall later reduced to three apses, excavated since 2005 by UCLouvain under Marco Cavalieri.

Aianteion

Aianteion (Αἰάντειον), a promontory place near Rhoeteion in the Troad by the Hellespont where classical sources located the tomb and sanctuary of Telamonian Ajax; distinct from the Temple of Ajax on Salamis and a Thessalian mount of the same name.

AIAS Hall of Fame

The AIAS Hall of Fame is a career-achievement award given by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences since 1998, when Shigeru Miyamoto became the first inductee.

Aiba Masaki

Aiba Masaki (相葉雅紀, Masaki Aiba, born 1982) is a Japanese singer, actor, and television presenter from Chiba Prefecture, best known as a member of Arashi.

Aibarchin Planitia

Aibarchin Planitia, Russian равнина Айбарчин, is a 1,200 km wide lowland plain on Venus at 73S 25E, named in 1997 after the heroine of the Uzbek Alpamysh epic; one of the smallest of Venus's 41 named planitiae.

Aibee

Aibee (爱笔智能) is a Beijing artificial intelligence startup founded in November 2017 by Lin Yuanqing, a former Baidu research director, that digitizes physical spaces like malls and airports.

Aibek Dädebai (Айбек Арқабайұлы Дәдебай)

Aibek Dädebai (Айбек Арқабайұлы Дәдебай), born 1980 in Almaty, Kazakh politician; head of the Presidential Administration 2024-2026, chairman of the Adilet party, and since August 2026 Chairman of the Kurultai.

AIBO (アイボ)

AIBO, also known as Sony AIBO, is a four-legged robot dog developed by Sony, first released in 1999 and relaunched in 2018, that learns and develops a personality through interaction with its owners.

AICA-ribosiduria

AICA-ribosiduria (ATIC deficiency, OMIM 608688) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive purine biosynthesis disorder causing AICA-riboside accumulation, severe neurodevelopmental impairment, blindness, epilepsy, and scoliosis; no cure, purine diet under trial.

Aicardi syndrome

Aicardi syndrome: rare X-linked dominant neurodevelopmental disorder of females, defined by agenesis of the corpus callosum, chorioretinal lacunae, and infantile spasms; cause unknown.

Aicardi-Goutières syndrome

Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS), a rare genetic interferonopathy and leukodystrophy mimicking congenital infection; nine causative genes including TREX1 and RNASEH2B; genotype-linked mortality and emerging JAK-inhibitor trials.

AICDA

AICDA, also known as AID, is a human gene on chromosome 12 that encodes an enzyme required for somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination in B cells.

Aicent

Aicent was a San Jose, California telecommunications company founded in 2000 by Lynn Liu that operated one of the world's largest mobile data roaming exchange networks.

Aïcha Cámara

Aïcha Cámara Cámara (born 2006, Sabadell) is a Spanish defender, number 23 for FC Barcelona women. Right back and centre back, U19 European champion 2024 and 2025, renewed to 2028.

Aicha Davis

Aicha Davis is an American Democratic politician representing Texas House District 109, elected in 2024 after six years on the Texas State Board of Education.

Aichi D3A

The Aichi D3A, Allied reporting name Val, was a carrier dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy, first Japanese aircraft to bomb American targets at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Aichi Financial Group

Aichi Financial Group is a Japanese regional bank holding company, formed in 2022 over Aichi Bank and Chukyo Bank; the two banks merged as Aichi Bank in 2025.