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Y Combinator-Backed AI Startup Lofty AI Launches Tokenized, Liquid Marketplace for A.I.-Vetted Real Estate on Algorand

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Y Combinator-Backed AI Startup Lofty AI Launches Tokenized, Liquid Marketplace for A.I.-Vetted Real Estate on Algorand

Lofty AI today announces the launch of its liquid real estate marketplace on the Algorand blockchain, including the introduction of a sixth tokenized property listing as it gains momentum in disrupting access to real estate ownership. Lofty AI’s model allows anyone to become a direct owner in real estate and earn rental income for as little as $50 per token and in as few as five minutes, made possible with its blockchain-based solution on Algorand. Unique to Lofty AI, properties listed within the marketplace are vetted by both their local investment team and proprietary artificial intelligence, designed to more accurately evaluate market indicators that drive appreciation, including social media data, retail trends, and more.

Lofty AI’s mission is to bring liquidity and accessibility to the notoriously illiquid real estate market. Algorand’s blockchain technology enables this via minimal transaction fees, advanced smart contracts that allow for the automation of many functions, and industry-leading transaction throughput speed. These factors allow investors to participate with significantly lower minimums and to liquidate their investments at any time of their choosing, thereby reducing risk.

Property tokens on Lofty AI can be purchased via credit card or ACH transfer, and soon, will be eligible for purchase using Algorand-based currencies. Rental income is distributed to owners in USD, with forthcoming options for rental income to be sent directly to a user’s Algorand wallet.

“We believe that real estate investing should not just be reserved for the ultra-wealthy. Our team ran into this issue when investing in real estate personally, so we set out to create a platform that makes it super easy to invest in vetted properties in minutes, for only $50,” said Max Ball, COO of Lofty AI. “Building on top of Algorand was a no-brainer for us––honestly it was probably the easiest decision we’ve had to make so far.”

“We are excited about Lofty AI’s success on Algorand, and congratulate them on today’s sixth tokenized property launch,” said David Markley, Director of Business Solutions at Algorand. “We believe that blockchain technology is the key to democratizing finance, including real estate investment opportunities, and have designed our protocol to facilitate the ease of use, speed, scalability, and true decentralization needed to enable this future.”

The sixth property to be listed on the Lofty AI marketplace goes live today, with 2509 tokens available for investment.

About Lofty AI

Lofty AI lets people invest in tokenized investment properties for only $50. All properties are vetted by their local investment team and proprietary artificial intelligence, and tokens can be sold anytime for no penalties or fees. Lofty AI has raised over $5M in total funding and is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Jason Calacanis, Hustle Fund, and more.

About Algorand Inc.

Algorand is building the technology to power the Future of Finance (FutureFi), the convergence of traditional and decentralized models into a unified system that is inclusive, frictionless, and secure. Founded by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand developed a blockchain infrastructure that offers the interoperability and capacity to handle the volume of transactions needed for defi, financial institutions and governments to smoothly transition into FutureFi. The technology of choice for more than 700 global organizations, Algorand is enabling the simple creation of next generation financial products, protocols and exchange of value.

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Vechain and SingularityNet Combine Blockchain + AI To Drive Sustainability and Build Advanced Enterprise-Grade Tools

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Vechain and SingularityNET, industry leaders in blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) respectively, have announced their strategic collaboration. This partnering of technical giants unites powerful emerging technologies with the potential to radically change how the global economy operates, offering powerful enterprise-grade tools to tackle challenges in the field of sustainability and traditional businesses.

In particular, the alliance holds great promise for vechain’s ambitions with Boston Consulting Group, partners, collaborating on building ‘ecosystems’ wherein individuals and businesses are incentivised to act sustainably. SingularityNet’s AI capabilities offer immense potential to enhance and improve these ecosystems, utilising AI technology to pore over data, and improve their efficacy.

Vechain and SingularityNET intend to launch joint research initiatives to fortify the efficacy of each respective platform and ingrain the pair at the heart of future digital development. The combination of these technologies can equip businesses with intelligent tools, signalling the onset of a new phase in the era of digitisation.

Dr. Ben Goertzel, the visionary CEO of SingularityNET, expressed his excitement for the massive potential of this partnership:

“The last few years have taught the world that when the right AI algorithms meet the right data on sufficient processing power, magic can happen.

What’s even better is when the algorithms, data and processing are decentralized in deployment, ownership and control — which is exactly the sort of magic that’s going to happen putting the SingularityNET ecosystem’s AI algorithms together with vechain’s deep and diverse enterprise data, on the joint, secure distributed processing power of the two networks.

This combined power will be applicable to sustainability as one of our initial focus areas, but in the end extends across essentially all vertical markets. It’s hard to overestimate the potential here.”

Vechain’s CTO Antonio Senatore commented:

“We’re excited to be collaborating with leading Web3 AI platform, SingularityNET, combining our rich streams of enterprise data with SingularityNET’s powerful and versatile platform.”

“Blockchain and AI offer game-changing capabilities for industries and enterprises and are opening new avenues of operation. We look forward to working closely with the SingularityNET team to build out new services and continue to advance the fore of possibility in web3 and sustainability.”

Vechain and SingularityNET are enabling a new, more interconnected and automated world, driving new capabilities in the fields of industry and in particular, for action around sustainability.

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Deepdub and OOONA Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand AI-Based Dubbing Solutions to Global Entertainment and Media Clients

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Deepdub, the leading AI-based audiovisual dubbing and language localization company, today announced a partnership with OOONA, a major media localization software provider. This collaboration will bring Deepdub’s advanced dubbing solutions to OOONA’s extensive entertainment and media clients worldwide.

Through this partnership, OOONA will implement a process for connecting their clients to Deepdub’s services. This will enable media companies and content creators worldwide to instantly access Deepdub’s innovative dubbing solutions. Companies will be able to submit their content localization needs with ease via OOONA’s platform and receive tailored proposals from Deepdub that leverage the power of AI emotion-prompting technology. Going forward, clients stand to benefit from more efficient workflows and access to groundbreaking dubbing capabilities unlocking flexibility and scale.

“OOONA’s unmatched expertise in media localization, honed from providing pioneering management and production tools to the biggest names in the sector, makes them an ideal partner,” said Ofir Krakowski, CEO and co-founder of Deepdub. “This collaboration gives us the opportunity to introduce our advanced AI dubbing technology to new clients across the entertainment industry and beyond.”

OOONA is trusted by leading media localizers, broadcasters and a vast user base spanning over 170 countries. “We continue to stay true to our mission of being the core platform that integrates anything our clients need, including any opportunities AI-based solutions bring for localizing audiovisual assets,” said Wayne Garb, CEO and co-founder of OOONA. “We are thrilled to collaborate with Deepdub and further strengthen the services we provide to our customers globally.”

About Deepdub

Deepdub aims to bridge the language barrier and cultural gap of entertainment experiences for international audiences across TV, Film, Advertising, Gaming and e-learning. We provide a high-quality localization service for entertainment content using deep learning and AI algorithms. Deepdub plugs into the post-production process of content owners and provides an end-to-end solution for all of their localization needs. Deepdub’s team consists of technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists, as well as dubbing and post-production specialists with extensive industry experience. The advisory board features prominent media executives such as Kevin Reilly, who held the position of Chief Content Officer at HBO Max and president of TNT, TBS, and truTV, and Emiliano Calemzuk, the former President of Fox Television Studios.

For more information about Deepdub, visit https://deepdub.ai 

About OOONA

OOONA.Net Ltd (www.ooona.net) is a globally recognized provider of professional management and production tools for the media localization industry. Renowned for its state-of-the-art software catering to subtitling, voiceover, dubbing and captioning needs, OOONA’s modular, pay-as-you-go pricing model empowers users to tailor solutions to their unique requirements. Trusted by leading media localizers, broadcasters and a vast user base spanning over 170 countries, OOONA continues to trailblaze advancements in the field of media localization.

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RedCloud is using Generative AI to unlock the future of B2B Commerce in Emerging Markets

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RedCloud is using Generative AI to unlock the future of B2B Commerce in Emerging Markets
  • Almost half of the growth in the FMCG industry over the next 3 years will take place in Emerging Markets outside of China
  • AI-powered Open commerce will be the key to FMCG’s winning in these markets
  • 90% + of B2B trade is still conducted offline, current ecommerce solutions will only go so far in bringing this trade online
  • RedCloud’s intelligent open commerce platform, which currently has over 300,000 users, empowers FMCG brands to dynamically transform trading relationships with their distribution channels and millions of micro retailers
  • With some of the largest product ranges in the world, the need for AI-powered search, order and trade is critical to cost, convenience and choice for the FMCGs in food, beverage, and essential consumer supplies.

Almost half of the growth in the FMCG industry over the next 3 years will take place in Emerging Markets outside of China. It’s a $1 trillion dollar opportunity for brands that can successfully navigate these markets. RedCloud Technologies, the company behind the world’s first open commerce platform, are bringing the latest in generative AI technology to help businesses further seize this sizable opportunity.

RedCloud has made a number of new AI expert hires and has formed several partnerships with cutting-edge AI companies. They now have number of updates to their intelligent open commerce platform in progress which include:

  • Powering their search and order functionality with large language models to reduce friction
  • Creating a new level of AI driven microtargeting for in-app campaigns and promotions
  • Utilising machine learning to create highly advanced predictive analytics
  • Augmenting their data processing operations with AI powered optimisation tools

For most businesses in the FMCG market, the ability to buy and sell efficiently is key. But in EMDEs – the areas that also have the greatest growth potential – barriers remain. RedCloud’s current platform has already created a fairer, more profitable trading system, bringing over 300,000 local merchants online for the first time, allowing them to trade instantly with their distributors and FMCGs. Their latest updates will go one step further, by fusing their search functionality with LLM’s, they will reduce the time spent ordering by over 80%. This frees up time local retailers could be using to trade in the digital economy.

It’s not just local retailers who will benefit though from the upcoming updates to the RedCloud platform. FMCG brands and distributors are also set to reap the benefits of RedCloud’s commitment to generative AI. Price volatility means businesses are often hard-pressed to keep up with the macroeconomic changes affecting their markets. RedCloud is therefore undertaking several updates to its existing dynamic pricing tools.

Their real-time data insights powered by machine learning creates automated pricing recommendations that could increase a company’s revenue by around 15%. They are also developing AI into their insights tool to allow for the creation of highly accurate predictive analytics. This will enable companies to further improve their forecasting with confidence, remaining ahead of macroeconomic curves and market trends.

RedCloud is also using generative AI to help companies reduce their advertising costs. FMCG brands can spend anything between 5%-15% of their operating budget on advertising, however on traditional channels, 90% goes unseen and conversion rates are continuing to reduce. RedCloud is supercharging its search and promotions tool  with machine learning to further improve its targeting capabilities, allowing for micro-segmentation of audiences and campaigns. This will allow companies to create more efficient and effective digital advertising campaigns, allocating spend only where it’s truly valuable.

Justin Floyd, founder and CEO of RedCloud, comments: ‘The future of B2B commerce is open and  conversational. This overcomes the lack of trust in traditional and big tech e-commerce platforms, enabling users to place orders in a familiar way and build sustainable relationships with sellers – regardless of whether there’s a human on the other end or not. ‘

RedCloud’s AI lead Daniel Chada, adds: ‘Generative AI, which includes technologies like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and language models like ChatGPT, can play a significant role in addressing the challenges of digitising B2B commerce. Managing user experience, data integration, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance, it provides a simple yet sophisticated solution to the most pressing problems faced in the FMCG space. And one that can be easily adopted in emerging markets.’

About RedCloud

RedCloud is a global technology company, headquartered in London committed to bringing commerce everywhere, especially in emerging markets, by digitally connecting FMCG brands, distributors, and merchants, enabling them to search smarter, sell better, and trade simpler.

With its proprietary Open Commerce platform, RedCloud is poised to drive economic growth in the FMCG industry by providing new levels of visibility and facilitating strategic decision-making based on real-time data analysis syndicated across the distribution chain.

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