Aether Holdings, OORT partner to build core data infrastructure for financial AI

Aether Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR), a financial technology holding company focused on data-driven platforms and media assets for investors, announced the formation of Aether DataHub, LLC, a joint venture with OORTech Inc. (OORT), a decentralised AI data cloud company.

OORT provides a distributed, community-driven platform for large-scale data collection, labelling, and validation.

The move comes as financial AI reaches an inflection point. While models, computing power, and capital are largely in place, high-quality, domain-specific data remains limited, difficult to validate, and hard to scale—creating a key constraint for the next generation of financial AI systems.

To address this gap, the joint venture will develop and operate the Aether DataHub platform, a financial AI data labelling and dataset curation platform aimed at producing institutional-grade training data for advanced financial AI applications and specialised large language models (LLMs).

Aether DataHub highlights

Data-Centric AI strategy: Focuses on addressing the global shortage of verifiable financial datasets by prioritising data quality as a key driver of AI performance.

End-to-End infrastructure: Leverages OORT’s DataHub platform, a global, community-driven data layer within its decentralised AI stack, to manage the full lifecycle of financial data — from collection and labelling to validation and enrichment.

Community-powered Intelligence: Combines Aether’s base of over 400,000 subscribers with OORT’s global contributor network and broader financial participants to build a distributed intelligence layer for sourcing and validating high-quality financial data at scale.

Institutional commercialisation: Creates a proprietary data layer to support Aether’s internal AI roadmap while also offering scalable data services for enterprise clients.

How does it work

Aether DataHub is being developed as a dedicated financial AI data platform aimed at producing institutional-grade, domain-specific datasets through a scalable labelling and curation framework.

The platform uses Aether’s media ecosystem, user engagement, and proprietary distribution to generate high-quality, human-validated data at scale, addressing a key constraint in next-generation AI model development.

Aether contributes financial media expertise, a growing subscriber base, and relationships across the investor community, while OORT provides a decentralised, enterprise-grade labelling infrastructure supported by a global contributor network.

“The next frontier of financial intelligence depends entirely on the quality and integrity of the underlying data,” said Nicolas Lin, Chief Executive Officer of Aether Holdings.

“Aether DataHub positions us to own and operate a critical layer of financial AI infrastructure and participate directly in the financial AI data ecosystem while building a proprietary data asset base that compounds in value over time. This is a long-term, strategically controlled investment designed to define our role in the financial AI ecosystem.”

Aether will lead commercialisation and market development, while OORT will co-build the core infrastructure, with Aether retaining majority governance rights over the venture’s strategic direction.

By owning and controlling key parts of the data value chain, Aether positions itself as both an infrastructure provider and a direct supplier of proprietary, high-value datasets used to train and run financial AI systems.