Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company’s AI division will unveil what he described as a “true breakthrough” in the coming week, pointing to a major update in its QVAC artificial intelligence platform.
Tether AI team will release a true breakthrough this coming week
— Paolo Ardoino 🤖 (@paoloardoino) March 15, 2026
QVAC, developed by Tether Data, is designed to run AI models directly on consumer devices without relying on cloud infrastructure or API access. The platform focuses on decentralized intelligence, enabling users to run and customize AI assistants locally on desktops, smartphones, and other hardware.
The announcement follows the release of QVAC Workbench version 0.4.1, which introduced a redesigned interface and expanded support for local AI workflows across desktop and mobile devices. The ecosystem has grown rapidly since its launch in 2025, including the release of synthetic training datasets and tools that allow developers to fine-tune large language models on consumer hardware.
Tether has funded these initiatives with profits from its stablecoin business, reporting more than $10 billion in net profit for 2025. The company said it is investing heavily in AI, energy infrastructure, and decentralized communications as part of a broader strategy to build alternatives to centralized technology platforms. The effort also extends into neurotechnology, with the company recently unveiling BrainWhisperer, a brain-computer interface system capable of converting neural signals into text with up to 98.3% accuracy using on-device AI processing.
