Erik Voorhees' Venice raises $65M Series A at $1B valuation, led by Dragonfly. The privacy-focused AI platform achieved profitability in Q1 before taking outside capital.
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"This capital will be used to uphold the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution as they relate to mankind’s interaction with AI."
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Congrats @AskVenice!
Control over intelligence is the defining fight of the coming decade. Whoever owns the AI delivery stack owns a direct window into your interior life. They log all your chats, train on them, and will hand them over when asked. And in the end, they decide the terms on which you'll get to access the most powerful systems humankind has ever built.
Venice flips that. On Venice, your AI is yours. Not licensed to you, not gated on their terms, not logged and monitored for compliance, but fully yours and completely private. All of the best open and closed models are accessible through their fully private and uncensored platform and APIs.
Just as Bitcoin made money unseizable and Apple made phones uncrackable, Venice makes AI unsurveillable. No company, lab, or government gets to read your conversations with your AI. Only you.
This will only become more important. A society stays free only as long as its most powerful tools answer to individuals instead of institutions. AI is about to become the most powerful tool we have, and the next decade decides whether it's something you own or something you're granted. Free societies are built from citizens who assert their freedoms rather than wait to be given them.
That's why we're incredibly proud to lead Venice's $65M Series A.
Check them out at @AskVenice.
THE BLOCK: Venice AI has raised a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation, giving the privacy-focused AI platform unicorn status.
Founder Erik Voorhees said they will "construct the platform dedicated to private and unrestricted machine intelligence." base:0xacfe6019ed1a7dc6f7b508c02d1b04ec88cc21bf
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