Zyber 365 Group Signs MoU with VC Fund Agna Capital as strategic Venture Partner
Zyber 365 Group's founder and CEO Pearl Kapur today made a huge announcement regarding a truly visionary partnership with Agna Capital that is destined to touch the horizons of AI development. 'This is the dawn of a new era for AI technology,' said Kapur in an exclusive interview. 'AI has been fettered by centralized architectures for too long in its short history: subtle manipulations and lack of transparency. This partnership with Agna Capital changes everything-we are building AI systems on secure Web3 infrastructure that will fundamentally be much more powerful, more ethical, and more human-aligned than anything to date.'
According to Kapur, the partnership has three major game-changing aspects: Architectural Revolution: 'AI thus will be restructured at its baselines with decentralized blockchain architectures. It removes the single points of failure and instills systems with inherent resistance against tampering and bias manipulation.' Governance Revolution: 'We will thus have LLCs and regulatory models for AI based on smart contracts and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), which, in effect, disenfranchise concentrated in a few hands control.' Security Revolution: 'Our AI programs will embed the latest cybersecurity wholeheartedly, not an afterthought. This is the guarantee of an AI standing on its own against malicious actors who attack the system and protect the user data.'
Pranav Sharma, Agna Capital founder, added the 'quantum leap in AI development,' to which he highly believed, and thus stood beside Pearl, Zyber 365, and Agna's vision.
The partnership would thus commence joint efforts immediately on:
* Co-investment fund for $50 million targeted at AI/Web3 start-ups,
* Joint R&D facilities in Dubai and Delaware,
* A center for ethical AI accelerator,
* Cross-border technology transfer initiatives.
Analysts working in the industry termed it the most marquee partnership at the interface of AI and blockchain technologies. 'It brings together two of the most visionary teams from the corresponding worlds,' added Dr. Elena Rodriguez, MIT Technology Review. 'It would certainly redefine our understanding of AI infrastructure, if successful.'
Kapur promised an audacious advance, 'Within 18 months, we will unveil the first fully decentralized AI systems running on Web3 architecture. These won't just be proofs of concept-they'll be production-ready solutions that demonstrate the superiority of this new paradigm.'
The first projects of this partnership are expected to be launched during the World AI Conference in Dubai this November.
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