Procyon
noun
Pro·cy·on
ˈprō-sē-ˌän 
ˈprä-,
-ən
: the brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor
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The results showed up clearly in UL’s Procyon AI benchmark.
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PC Magazine, 17 July 2025
Suman Sharma is the cofounder and CTO of Procyon Inc.
Imagine a retail firm’s AI spitting out a sales forecast for a regional manager, merging public market trends, open to all, with sensitive customer purchase histories, restricted to top execs.
—Suman Sharma, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Then look upward and to the left of Sirius to spot Procyon, and back up toward Orion to find reddish Betelgeuse at its shoulder.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Looking directly upwards from Sirius, a bit more than halfway up the sky, one sees Procyon, the bright star of Canis Minor, the Little Dog.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
One such is the Winter Triangle — formed by Sirius, Betelgeuse and Procyon — that's still visible in the southwest after sunset, but not for long.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
About all there is to the Little Dog is Procyon and the fainter star Gomeisa, just above and a little to the right of Procyon.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2025
From mid-northern latitudes, Procyon rises above the east-northeast horizon about 25 minutes before the more dazzling Sirius emerges above the east-southeast horizon.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Here, Procyon uses versions of Mistral, Microsoft's PHI, and two flavors of Meta AI's Llama LLMs.
—Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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PC Magazine, 17 July 2025
Suman Sharma is the cofounder and CTO of Procyon Inc.
Imagine a retail firm’s AI spitting out a sales forecast for a regional manager, merging public market trends, open to all, with sensitive customer purchase histories, restricted to top execs.
—Suman Sharma, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Then look upward and to the left of Sirius to spot Procyon, and back up toward Orion to find reddish Betelgeuse at its shoulder.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Looking directly upwards from Sirius, a bit more than halfway up the sky, one sees Procyon, the bright star of Canis Minor, the Little Dog.
—Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
One such is the Winter Triangle — formed by Sirius, Betelgeuse and Procyon — that's still visible in the southwest after sunset, but not for long.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
About all there is to the Little Dog is Procyon and the fainter star Gomeisa, just above and a little to the right of Procyon.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2025
From mid-northern latitudes, Procyon rises above the east-northeast horizon about 25 minutes before the more dazzling Sirius emerges above the east-southeast horizon.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Here, Procyon uses versions of Mistral, Microsoft's PHI, and two flavors of Meta AI's Llama LLMs.
—Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Procyon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Procyon. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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