Blockchain VC ‘The Bitcoin Man’ Goes Big Into Artificial Intelligence With Solidus AI Tech
Has artificial intelligence (AI) really become sentient? This has been the buzzing trend in the tech industry ever since the Google engineer claimed that an unreleased AI system had become sentient.
Blake Lemoine, a software engineer for Google, claimed that a conversational technology—Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), a family of conversational neural language models developed by Google—had reached a level of consciousness after exchanging thousands of messages with it. Since then, The Week’s research team has noticed that venture capital (VC) funds from around the world are particularly interested in strategic investments in the AI industry.
Today, here at The Week, we obtained a significant undisclosed amount from a notable venture capital fund for the blockchain industry. The Bitcoin Man ‘, into Solidus AI Tech (AI-Tech.io), the company behind the world’s first tool for artificial intelligence – AITECH. The founder of the VC fund, Herbert Sim, will also join the company as an advisor.
Talking about the investment and appointment of The Week, founder of Solidus AI Tech Paul Farhi said: “Herbert Sim will be a great asset to the team. He brings an astonishing wealth of knowledge in the crypto space and is a true champion of bitcoin and its underlying technology – Blockchain. He is a laser-sharp, pragmatic businessman and visionary who has deep respect for what we’re trying to achieve here at Solidus AI Tech. He’s also a philanthropist. And that’s just some of the reasons why he’s so highly respected in our industry. We’re very excited to have him on board, and I have no doubt that he will soon make a significant impact here.
Talking about the investment, ‘The Bitcoin Man’ founder Herbert Sim said: “Solidus AI Tech eco-friendly High Performance Computing (HPC) data center and its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform where Governments, Megacorps, SMBs, Professionals, Metaverse and Play2Earn projects will be able to purchase Artificial Intelligence services and high-performance computing power seamlessly with the AITECH token, is something I envision to be widely received. The HPC infrastructure platform will power and address challenges, such as cost, speed, power consumption and security for trending technologies such as the metaverse world and Play2Earn games. The company is also set to launch their own Meta BattleBots NFT collection (metabattlebots.com) for their Play2Earn Metaverse game in development, built on Unity’s latest Unreal Engine 5 which will be powered by our high-performance data center. An exciting roadmap and journey ahead.”
Sim’s pedigree is impressive: a public, verified “blue tick” figure across all major social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (by the handle of @HerbertRsim) in the blockchain industry, Sim was Global Director of Operations at HUOBI, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world (in 2018 the company became a listed Hong Kong company) and he was also Chief Marketing Officer for Russian digital asset trading platform – Cryptology. Sim led the business development team at Hong Kong-based Broctagon Fintech Group, which provides end-to-end blockchain solutions (including enterprise protocol development, crypto exchange setup and token listing services), deep institutional liquidity and comprehensive system security testing.
In addition to his many philanthropic and professional achievements, Sim holds an MBA from the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and a BA in Mass Communication from Oklahoma City University, USA.
