Tether Rolls Out Privacy-Focused Health App as Expansion Into AI Accelerates
Tether, the corporate behind the $186 billion USDT stablecoin, is transferring additional past its crypto roots with a privacy-focused well being and wellness app.
On Wednesday, the agency rolled out QVAC Well being, constructed on its AI growth platform and designed to convey management to customers monitoring their health, diet and biometric knowledge throughout units.
The app lets customers monitor their well being knowledge — like step counters, sleep trackers, exercise apps — and maintain them offline and encrypted on their private units with out passing by business servers or being harvested for promoting, the agency stated.
“QVAC Well being displays the corporate’s dedication to privacy-preserving native intelligence,” Tether CEO Paolo Arodino stated. “You shouldn’t have to decide on between utilizing the perfect {hardware} in the marketplace and sustaining your privateness. We’re breaking down the partitions between Huge Tech ecosystems so you may personal the complete image of your well being.”
The transfer marks Tether’s newest push into decentralized know-how infrastructure and synthetic intelligence (AI), increasing past finance and digital property. Tether has constructed QVAC, a decentralized AI platform to deploy brokers and functions that may totally run on units, bypassing centralized cloud infrastructures.
Earlier this week, Tether stated it invested in an Italy-based firm Generative Bionics as a part of the startup’s 70 million euros ($81.5 million) fundraising spherical. The agency develops clever humanoid robots with superior synthetic intelligence, with plans for industrial deployment as early as subsequent 12 months.
Earlier than that, Tether purchased a majority stake in Blackrock Neurotech, a brain-computer interface firm, for $200 million.
