Aether Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR) ("Aether" or the "Company"), an emerging financial technology holding company developing data-driven platforms and media assets for investors, today announced the formation of Aether DataHub, LLC ("Aether DataHub"), a joint venture with OORTech Inc. (OORT), a global decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) data cloud company providing a distributed, community-driven platform for large-scale data collection, labeling, and validation.

Financial AI is at an inflection point. While the models, compute, and capital are in place, high-quality, domain-specific data remains scarce, difficult to validate, and challenging to scale—representing a key constraint on the next generation of financial AI systems. To address this gap, the joint venture will build and operate the Aether DataHub platform, a financial AI data labeling and dataset curation platform designed to produce institutional-grade training data for next-generation financial AI applications and specialized large language models (LLMs).