Arif Khan is the Founder and CEO of Alethea AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) company that utilizes blockchain technology to enhance how AI and humans interact. ^[1][2]

Education

Arif Khan attended the Singapore Management University where he studied for a Bachelor's in Business Management & Business/Corporate Communications. Afterward, he attended
Goethe University Frankfurt for a Masters degree in Political Philosophy. ^[1]

Career

From 2006 to 2008, Arif Khan served as a Specialist in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). In 2008, he joined the Singapore Management University to work as a research and teaching Assistant. From 2012 to 2014, Arif was a Consultant at Executive Search (Robert Walters & Allegis Group) serving as a recruitment specialist recruiting for Sales and Marketing functions from mid to senior levels, on a contingent and retained basis in Singapore. ^[1]

In 2014, Arif joined LinkedIn as an Account Director where he led a number of cross-functional projects in Enterprise Sales, Product Marketing & executed a number of large-scale strategic partnerships for market entry and expansion into South-East Asia. ^[1]

In 2017, he joined SingularityNET, a decentralized AI service network utilizing blockchain technology, and served as the Chief Marketing Officer of the organization. In this role, Arif led a global cross-functional product marketing, business, and community development team to enable the company's success and growth.

Alethea AI

Arif Khan founded Alethea AI in 2019 and serves as the CEO of the organization. ^[1][2]

Alethea AI is a research and development studio building at the intersection of two technologies: Generative AI and Blockchain. It is a decentralized protocol for creating smart avatars that use AI to interact with people. ^[2]

The platform originated a standard for NFTs called the intelligent NFT (iNFT), which enables the creation of NFTs embedded with AI animation, voice synthesis, and generative AI capabilities. ^[2][3]

"An iNFT is an intelligent NFT that is embedded with a GPT-3 prompt as part of its immutable smart contract. The iNFT generated is not only perceivably intelligent, but has both interactive and animation capabilities as carefully crafted prompts are stored at the smart contract layer. The hardcoded prompts call upon a state-of-the-art Transformer Language model to facilitate generative possibilities only possible through recent breakthroughs in few-shot and single-shot learning." - Arif Khan explained in a blog post ^[3]

On June 10, 2021, the Alethea AI protocol created the first intelligent NFT (iNFT) that sold on Sotheby’s for $478,800. ^[4]

In July 2021, Alethea AI partnered with the Fame Lady Squad NFT Community to bring their collection to life as interactive, intelligent assets for the first time in history. The partnership enables users to Fuse Personality Pods and Fame Ladies together to make an intelligent NFT, or an iNFT.

“NFTs need not start and end with jpegs; they don’t need to be stationary, or still, or quiet. Instead, they can be engaging, interactive, and have some level of intelligence,” - commented Arif Khan ^[5]

In December 2021, Alethea AI announced an investment by Binance Smart Chain (BSC) across their Metaverse and NFT ecosystem through BSC’s $1 Billion USD growth fund.

“It is an honor to join Binance’s incredible ecosystem, Binance has an incredibly deep bench of Tier-1 Projects in its ecosystem and as more Metaverses develop, we are confident that interactive, intelligent NFTs will play a critical role in elevating the consumer and gaming experience. I am confident that this Token purchase will only improve and expand our Intelligent Metaverse, Noah’s Ark.” - stated Arif Khan

On October 4, 2023, Alethea AI announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its strategic cloud collaborator to enhance AI training and jumpstart experiments with Open-Source Foundation models. The partnership aims to fuel Alethea AI's mission of harnessing the power of Web3 infrastructure to enable ownership of AI. ^[6]

“AWS has fueled Dynamic scaling, robust storage, and agile databases. It has really been a platform that has turbocharged our development and fortified our infrastructure, creating a standard for our growth. We are really excited to venture deeper into this partnership with AWS as we use their services and infrastructure for our growth.” said Arif Khan

ALI Token

The Artificial Liquid Intelligence (ALI) token was launched on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token with a 10 Billion maximum supply and 790 Million ALI (7.9%) initially unlocked. ALI is the native ERC-20 token for Alethea AI and it is used for various work transactions, including leveling up and training iNFTs, enabling an iNFT Intelligence Level to be upgraded, governance of the iNFT ecosystem, collaboration between iNFTs, and lastly, it enables the iNFT Protocol and Applications to utilize growth hack mechanisms and other token-based innovations. ^[7][8]