Kris Marszalek, founder and CEO of cryptocurrency change Crypto.com, has acquired ai.com for $70 million, the best public worth ever paid for a web site area, FT reported.
Gartner stated the acquisition alerts the administration's transfer into synthetic intelligence, an space the place international spending is predicted to achieve almost $1.5 trillion in 2025. The momentum is even stronger this yr, with Bloomberg reporting that the 4 largest U.S. tech firms, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft alone, plan to speculate a mixed $650 billion in AI infrastructure this yr.
The deal, which was accomplished in April 2025, was executed fully in cryptocurrency, the FT stated in a report on Friday, citing GetYourDomain.com's Larry Fisher, who brokered the deal. This worth is greater than double the earlier document of $30 million when Block.one acquired Voice.com in 2019. Block.one is the proprietor of Bullish (BLSH), the guardian firm of CoindDesk. Marszalek spent $12 million to accumulate crypto.com in 2018.
Ai.com introduced the debut of its client platform with autonomous AI brokers. Not like conventional chatbots, these brokers are designed to work on behalf of customers and carry out duties reminiscent of buying and selling shares, managing calendars, and automating workflows. Marszalek stated the platform goals to be a “gateway to AGI” by a decentralized community.
“We’re at a basic shift within the evolution of AI, shifting past primary chat to AI brokers really doing issues for people,” Marszalek stated. “Our imaginative and prescient is a decentralized community of billions of brokers that enhance themselves and share their enhancements with one another.”
The platform introduced its debut with a Tremendous Bowl LX business on Sunday, inflicting a spike in site visitors and crashing the web site for a number of hours. Writing in Monday's X, Marszalek cited the 30-second advert's “extraordinary site visitors ranges” and famous that whereas the workforce was ready to scale, the quantity of curiosity was unprecedented.
