Tether investit dans la technologie du sommeil IA ! Investissement principal dans Eight Sleep de 50 millions de dollars, valorisation atteignant 1,5 milliard de dollars

Stablecoin giant Tether leads a $50 million strategic investment in AI sleep technology startup Eight Sleep, which is valued at $1.5 billion. Tether will collaborate with Eight Sleep through its privacy health platform QVAC to integrate AI agents into its smart sleep products, aiming to create a passive, wearable-free health monitoring ecosystem.
（Background: Tether spent ten years finally obtaining a reserve report from the Big Four accounting firm Deloitte, but not for USDT, rather for USAT）
（Additional context: Tether’s gold token XAUT introduces a new unit “Scudo,” allowing users to buy gold with the price of a coffee）

Mardi, Tether announced leading a $50 million strategic funding round for sleep tech startup Eight Sleep, a company focused on smart bedding and health products, with a valuation reaching $1.5 billion. Eight Sleep had previously completed a $100 million funding round in August last year.

Tether stated that the company holds a “strong belief” in the health tech sector, believing that technologies supporting “longevity, performance optimization, and disease prevention” will be the next major market. The two parties will collaborate to develop AI-based health tech products, with core technology based on Tether’s privacy health platform QVAC launched in December last year—a system that allows users to integrate biometric health data from wearable devices like smart rings into a single platform, providing health insights locally with AI, without uploading data to the cloud.

AI Agent Trained on 1 Billion Hours of Sleep Data

Eight Sleep’s flagship product, Pod, is a smart sleep system that automatically adjusts bed temperature, tilt angle, and ambient sound based on metrics such as heart rate, respiration, snoring, sleep onset, and sleep stages. The product already has AI integration, but founder Matteo Franceschetti stated on X that the new funding will be used to develop a predictive AI agent trained on over 1 billion hours of sleep data.

Franceschetti also revealed that the company is advancing an FDA application for sleep apnea detection—“passive, automatic operation every night, no wires or clinic visits needed.” He emphasized that the goal of this collaboration is to extend AI health intelligence “from Pod to every aspect of personal health.”

L’expansion continue de l’empire non cryptographique de Tether

Cette investissement représente la dernière étape de Tether dans sa stratégie d’expansion hors du secteur des cryptomonnaies. Grâce aux énormes capitaux générés par ses activités en USDT, Tether a récemment investi dans des secteurs tels que l’or, les médias, la biotech et l’IA, et a même tenté à plusieurs reprises d’acquérir des clubs de football professionnels.

Pour l’industrie crypto, la stratégie de Tether mérite une attention particulière. D’une part, la position dominante de USDT en tant que plus grande stablecoin mondiale lui assure un flux de trésorerie constant ; d’autre part, investir ses profits dans des secteurs à forte croissance comme la santé AI indique que Tether construit un groupe technologique diversifié bien au-delà de la simple stablecoin. Il sera intéressant de voir si ce modèle devient une référence pour d’autres entreprises crypto natives.