Protege x VLGE AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Scale Data for World Model Builders and Pioneer Embodied Retail Intelligence for the Agentic Era

SAN FRANCISCO – June 2026 – Protege and VLGE AI today announced a strategic collaboration exploring a new category of AI training infrastructure built around embodied retail behavior, World Models, and spatial intelligence.

The collaboration brings together Protege’s rich ecosystem for AI data distribution and licensing with VLGE AI’s world building and spatial intelligence infrastructure that transforms immersive environments into high signal human behavioral training data for next generation AI systems and agents.

As AI systems increasingly move beyond text into spatial reasoning, simulation, robotics, and agentic commerce, both companies believe the future of intelligence will depend on richer forms of human behavioral data captured at scale inside economically contextualized environments.

VLGE AI captures anonymized, consent based behavioral signals from immersive worlds of its platform, including movement trajectories, hesitation loops, exploration patterns, object interactions, spatial decision making, and contextual commerce behavior. Through its world creation and interoperable environments spanning web experiences, gaming ecosystems, and digital twins, VLGE AI is building what it calls the “world model layer for human intelligence.”

Protege is building the real-world data platform for AI. The company helps data holders prepare, license, and monetize high-quality datasets while giving AI developers ethical access to the multimodal data they need to train and evaluate models. Protege combines data sourcing, licensing, and technical preparation to make fragmented real-world data usable for modern AI systems.

Together, the companies are exploring how embodied behavioral intelligence could evolve into a scalable new asset class for AI training and simulation.

“AI systems need to understand not only what humans say, but how humans move, hesitate, explore, compare, and decide within environments,” said Evelyn Mora, founder and CEO of VLGE AI. “The future of human intelligence will come from living behavioral systems and spatially contextualized human interaction.”

The collaboration will initially focus on defining new frameworks around high-signal human datasets, behavioral metadata standards, and pathways for distributing embodied training data to the broader AI ecosystem at scale.

“New generations of AI applications will require entirely new categories of data,” said Bobby Samuels, Co-founder and CEO of Protege. “We are excited by VLGE AI’s vision for transforming its platform into dynamic sources of behavioral intelligence and believe this category has significant long term potential for the future of world models, simulation, and agentic systems.”

VLGE AI is also preparing the launch of a major new expansion of its Gaussian Splatting infrastructure, enabling rapid generation of high-fidelity digital twin worlds optimized for embodied AI, robotics, and world model training. Using its proprietary smart camera system, still under development, and its immersive behavioral capture pipelines, VLGE transforms physical environments into structured spatial intelligence datasets that capture movement, interaction, object behavior, and environmental context at scale.

The announcement comes amid growing industry demand for high fidelity training data capable of supporting multimodal AI, world models, robotics, simulation systems, and autonomous agents operating inside dynamic environments.

VLGE AI has previously worked across luxury, beauty, fashion, and cultural sectors, positioning commerce environments as one of the richest sources of economically contextualized human behavior available for AI training.

Both companies emphasized that all future data initiatives would prioritize consent, anonymization, and ethical data governance principles.

The collaboration marks an early step toward building infrastructure for a future where immersive environments evolve from static experiences into continuously learning intelligence systems.

About VLGE AI

VLGE AI is a world model and behavioral intelligence platform transforming its diverse and high-signal immersive environments into embodied  training data for AI systems, world models and agentic systems at scale. 

About Protege

Protege is the single platform for real-world data for AI. The company helps AI model builders access high-quality private data and transform it into fit-for-purpose training and evaluation datasets through curation, compliance, and technical expertise.

For more information please contact:

For VLGE AI: hello<at>vlge.com / evelyn<at>vlge.com, and for Protege: contact<at>withprotege.ai