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Nectar AI Raises $3.9M to Build Uncensored Immersive AI Companions

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    New York, New York, August 26th, 2024, Chainwire

     

    Nectar AI, an immersive AI companionship platform, announced today it has raised $3.9 million in funding.

    The seed round is co-led by Mechanism Capital and Karatage, with participation from Synergis, Maelstrom (Arthur Hayes), Builder Capital, Baboon, and Decima. Notable angel investors include Tekin Salimi and George Lambeth (Dao5), Albert Chon (Cofounder at Injective), Charles Lu (Cofounder at Espresso Systems), Gabby Dizon (Cofounder at YGG), and several other key figures in the crypto space.

    The proceeds will be used to scale the team with several key hires on both the AI and protocol side, as well as increase capacity for new partnerships and affiliates.

    Nectar AI’s mission is to allow users to create and interact with AI companions that feel indistinguishable from reality. Leveraging the latest developments in generative AI and web3, Nectar AI allows users to create uncensored & replicable multimodal AI companions in either a realistic or anime style. Users can customize their characters at a level of depth unmatched by other platforms, by detecting user intent and responding appropriately with images or text within seconds. Generative AI video creation is also available on the platform, with more in depth video and voice messages coming soon. In the future, users will be able to port their created companions onchain, giving them full IP ownership of their assets as well as the ability to permissionlessly monetize them.

    Currently, over 500,000 users on the platform create both AI stories and companions, which allows storytellers to create rich and dynamic role playing experiences that can range from medieval adventures to different encounters. Companions are AI generated agents that can star in any of these stories, similar to casting an actress for a movie.

    Members of the Nectar community have lauded the platform for its ability to make uncensored immersive content for entertainment and emotional support.

    One user said, “A recent update allowed me to transform my photos into companions. The new ability to bring portraits to life inspired me to create a music video with one of them as the protagonist. Nectar is such a creator-friendly platform, and I’m really looking forward to more updates and eventually monetize my assets.”

    Keccak and Zi, the co-founders of Nectar AI, first met at Stanford and began working on the project in August 2023. Prior, Keccak helped start a prominent AI & crypto fund and Zi made significant contributions to realistic synthetic facial generation at Meta and L1 Blockchains. Nectar is set on developing a new protocol set to release later this year to enable financialization of on-chain AI agents.

    About Nectar

    Nectar AI is building out the future of human and AI interaction. We believe that these experiences should be uncensored and immersive, and our flagship product allows users to create personalized and multimodal AI companions.

    With over 500k users, Nectar AI’s mission is to become the most powerful decentralized platform for creating AI assets, and to deliver an integrated experience both on and offchain. Nectar AI was founded in 2023 by Keccak and Zi, who both graduated from Stanford, and has founding team members from top companies and protocols.

    Site: nectar.ai

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    Independent Expert Assessment Validates RenovaroCube’s Potential as a Groundbreaking AI Platform Starting with Early Cancer Detection

    2024-09-17T13:00:00Z

    Assessment by specialist AI team from “PersonalAIze” Highlights the Strength, Potential, and Visionary Talent Behind the Innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform

    AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Nasdaq: RENB) - PersonalAIze, a cutting-edge company in AI and machine learning applications for healthcare, has conducted a comprehensive evaluation of RenovaroCube’s advanced AI platform. This effort is spearheaded by PersonalAIze CEOs and AI experts, Mark Hoogendoorn and Sandjai Bhulai, who bring their extensive expertise to assess the platform developed under the guidance of Frank van Asch, CTO and co-Founder of the technology on which RenovaroCube is based.

    Prof. Mark Hoogendoorn, also a professor of Artificial Intelligence, expressed his enthusiasm: “We were pleased to be engaged to make an assessment of the AI platform; this is exactly the area of PersonalAIze’s expertise.”

    Frank van Asch remarked on the collaboration, “The expertise of PersonalAIze’s team is exceptional, and their positive evaluation of our AI/ML platform is invaluable.”

    RenovaroCube's AI platform has been advancing innovation for the past 12 years, evolving from its award-winning Fintech roots into a potentially groundbreaking multi-omic molecular differential system that identifies cancer in its earliest stages. It is an open platform that can be used as a SaaS by many private sector and academic or other large hospital and health systems. It is also disease agnostic, so it can be expanded for many purposes.

    The initial aim is to transform cancer early detection and early detection of recurrence from a small vial of blood (liquid biopsy), potentially supporting clinicians to initiate treatments as soon as possible towards improved outcomes for patients.

    In their analysis, PersonalAIze noted the platform's focus on liquid biopsies and third-generation sequencing coupled with AI techniques as highly promising, potentially allowing for comprehensive analysis across varying cancer types and stages. Prof. Sandjai Bhulai, also a professor of Mathematics, commented on the platform’s unique potential and the impressive multidisciplinary team at RenovaroCube under Frank van Asch’s leadership.

    Based on these findings, PersonalAIze is eager to collaborate further with RenovaroCube to enhance and commercialize the platform.

    PersonalAIze aims to contribute in several key areas:

    • Advancing AI models by leveraging the latest state-of-the-art techniques.
    • Supporting the professional growth of the software team.
    • Enhancing the explainability of AI models, engaging clinicians in model development.
    • Selecting optimal patient groups for data collection and evaluating models and final products in clinical settings.

    This partnership could represent a substantial step forward in the fight against cancer, bringing together AI innovation and healthcare expertise to develop a powerful tool for early detection that has the potential to save countless lives.

    About Renovaro
    Renovaro aims to accelerate precision and personalized medicine for longevity powered by mutually reinforcing AI and biotechnology platforms for early diagnosis, better-targeted treatments, and drug discovery. Renovaro Inc. includes RenovaroBio with its advanced cell-gene immunotherapy company and RenovaroCube.

    RenovaroCube has developed an award-winning AI platform that is committed to the early detection of cancer and its recurrence and monitoring subsequent treatments. RenovaroCube intervenes at a stage where potential therapy can be most effective. RenovaroCube is a molecular data science company with a background in FinTech and a 12-year history. It brings together proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology, multi-omics, multi-modal data, and the expertise of a carefully selected multidisciplinary team to radically accelerate precision medicine and enable breakthrough changes in cancer care.

    About PersonalAIze
    PersonalAIze focusses on building solutions that improve healthcare by leveraging state-of-the-art AI techniques. It has been founded by four experienced professors bringing together decades of research experience in AI and healthcare with the aim to bring the latest scientific AI developments into healthcare practice faster. PersonalAIze does this through both consultancy and product development and targets clinical decision making systems as well as improvement of health care operations such as capacity planning.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature are forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions based on current information and expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the success or efficacy of our pipeline, platform and fundraising. All statements other than historical facts are forward-looking statements, which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “plans,” “expects,” “aims,” “intends,” “potential,” or similar expressions. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in any of such statements due to various uncertainties, including as set forth in Renovaro’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and Renovaro Inc. undertakes no obligation to revise or update this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.

    For media inquiries, please contact: karen@renovarocube.com

    Source: Renovaro Inc.


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