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SoftBank Focuses On The Layout Of The Metaverse With AOS To Create A Brand-New Future
Recently, Softbank Ventures Asia publicly announced that it has begun to focus on Metaverse and invested in the AOS project. It will cooperate with AOS to connect and integrate more Metaverses in AI, NFT, robotics, and other fields, and carry the development of large-scale killer applications.
The enthusiastic investment in Metaverse has not subsided, but it has risen again. The technology giants have all entered the Metaverse. Facebook plans to fully transform into Metaverse before 2025, and will set up a product team to accelerate investment in VR/AR and the creator community; Bytedance, which has always believed in Striving for Miracles, merged Mutong Technology for 4 billion USD, and begin to lay out the Metaverse; Axie Infinity builds NFT games based on the Metaverse, subverting the traditional game mode and becoming a phenomenon-level game product; miHOYO, the developer of “Genshin Impact”, formed an AI scientist inverse entropy team, and self-developed Avatar Luming to explore the brain-computer interface. Through investment, miHOYO has successfully deployed the social Metaverse Soul; the Internet industry is renewing and iterating rapidly, and companies need to attach importance to meet unknown concepts and challenges or be left behind by the times.
In the Metaverse era, everything has virtual avatars. The concept of Metaverse seems to be still in the mist today, but the prelude to the new era has been opened, and it is closer than you think.
The popularization of the term Metaverse was cited from the novel Avalanche by American science fiction writer Neil Stephenson in 1992. In his book, he used the word Metaverse for the first time without foundation and described it as a parallel universe projected from the real world through technical means such as the Internet. However, anyone who has watched the movie “Ready Player One” by the great director Steven Spielberg should probably understand this concept. Like the “Oasis” in the movie, the company has created a realistic virtual world outside of the real world. Every player in the real world has another identity in the virtual world, establishes another social circle, and leads another life. Although the Metaverse is only a virtual world, its immersion is so vivid that you will think it is the real world and enjoy life in this new world.
AOS (Artificial Intelligence Operating System) is the first operating system developed by Canada Unicorn Park, based on the underlying blockchain technology to connect the Metaverse. By building a Metaverse bridge online, and using robots as an intelligent carrier offline to build an ecosystem between Metaverses and provide a new experience for integration with Metaverse and the real world.
Based on AOS, users could create an AI NFT that has autonomous consciousness and advanced self-learning capability; And it also gets influenced by the distributed personality database on the chain to build character, and gradually complete neural network-style self-learning and improvements. Most of all, the distributed character database is based on the “Book of Changes” and appropriately constructs the character of AI; users can inject their favorite characters, personalities, voices, etc., into their own AI NFT, and tame it to learn more skills. AOS encourages users to integrate more characters and personalities, combined with NFT to create different artistic values. The custom AI itself has NFT attributes. Users can customize the appearance of AI on the network, and can also authorize access to a third-party character customization system, such as specific character images and voices, and third-party NFT star voices and appearances, packaged in the form of NFT used for trading and collection.
AOS connects the first-generation physical carrier, the AI four-wheel driving robot Mars_1 with the Metaverse and the real world, creating a new user experience.
Mars_1 is a highly integrated artificial intelligence robot product. Its appearance is in the form of a four-legged driving robot dog. It adopts an original five-layer motion control technology and several technical indicators are in a leading position in the global industry. Mars_1 has integrated the Internet of Things, 5G, virtual reality/augmented reality, intelligent driving, swarm intelligence, and other technologies. Mars_1 will obey commands and gradually be closer to a dog and then become to a good assistant to humankind.
On the road to the Metaverse, AOS always hopes to leave a strong and colorful stroke in its own way. Connect the Metaverse through AI and map out the experience and lifestyle of the future. For the world that people dream of, high-intelligence AI coupled with linkage with robots will be an indispensable component of this era. As the aboriginal and basic units of the Metaverse, these virtual species based on AOS will continue to establish connections with us beyond human beings in the infinite space and time of the future, transcending the fetters of races.
Sun Zhengyi believes: “We are about to experience the biggest change in human history. AI will eventually replace human beings. This is not only reflected in knowledge but also in intelligence. This change will happen in this century, and then in the next 30 years, there is no doubt that our focus is on AI, intelligent robots, and the IOTs.” Based on this analysis and judgment, SoftBank has frequently carried out large-scale layouts in the fields of AI, intelligent robots, and IOTs. Start from all aspects to create a powerful robot empire. Today, SoftBank’s industries have completed the layout of the future of the new Internet field as Sun Zhengyi said in the past, and completed more than half of the investment of unicorn companies on a global scale, laying a foundation for the subsequent development of the IOTs in the world.
As a world-renowned “Animation Kingdom”, Japan has an irreplaceable influence in the global animation field. After half a century of development, the Japanese animation industry has formed an extremely large system, making Japan the world’s largest animation production and exporting country, and it also around animation IP to derive cultural and creative products, such as GK. With the development of smart technology, they also work hard in the direction of intelligence for GK. Headquartered in Japan, SoftBank has a unique geographical location and is deeply immersed in Japanese IP culture. This collaboration with AOS will further promote the combination of the GK industry and the AIindustry, and provide AOS with a steady stream of IP resources. Users’ favorite characters such as Luffy, Conan, Sailor Moon, Sakuragi Hanamichi, Inuyasha, etc., can inject their image and personality into AI to create your smart figure. Each AI figure is a unique individual, and different parameters also create different expressions and styles. At the same time, when users have more exchanges with AI, they will gradually become familiar with the user’s temper and preferences and adjust their apparent personality in real-time and dynamically making it infinitely close to the form that we want to see eventually.
The product made by a single company is not enough to be called a Metaverse but constitutes an ecological system. With the deep participation of users, if it is successful in collective efforts to build a more interoperable system, and it can be transformed into different layers, then it should be called a Metaverse. AOS is committed to becoming the link between the physical world and the virtual world, as a bridge between various Metaverses to connect the Metaverse and continue to build a new Metaverse ecology. This will be the top priority in the next stage of the development of the Internet after the mobile Internet.
What kind of world will mankind be in the future? SoftBank Asia and AOS have worked together because of the same concept for Metaverse and jointly created such a grand concept, standing at the forefront of the Metaverse economic tide, seizing opportunities, embracing the new future, and believing that with their win-win cooperation, they will give a perfect answer for the world.
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Velocity Capital Group’s Jay Avigdor Announces Book Pre-Orders and Upcoming Podcast “Chewing Glass”
New York, New York, October 28th, 2026, FinanceWire
Need It, Don’t Want It, a business memoir told in reverse, publishes December 8, 2026, and the podcast will feature founders on the setbacks behind their companies.
Jay Avigdor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Velocity Capital Group, today announced that his book, Need It, Don’t Want It: The Business Lessons No One Asks for, No One Tells You, but Everyone Needs, is available for pre-order on Amazon ahead of its December 8, 2026 publication by Advantage Books. Avigdor also announced Chewing Glass, an upcoming podcast about the challenges of being an entrepreneur, premiering in November, 2026. Both projects focus on the hard, gritty side of building a business.
The book tells the story of Velocity Capital Group in reverse. It opens in Chapter 12, with the company established, and works back through setbacks with financing, staff and the pandemic to the company’s first days. The frame is a teenager who asks Avigdor to mentor him and is taught the lessons from the end to the beginning. Each chapter closes with takeaways and “Need It Notes” that ask readers to apply the ideas to their own businesses.
“If you can take a faster punch, and you can take more punches than the other guy, that’s who’s going to win,” said Jay Avigdor, Chairman and CEO of Velocity Capital Group.
In the book, Avigdor writes about “the days when I had to question whether I could turn my ambitions into reality.”
In an early trade review, BookLife by Publishers Weekly wrote: “Avigdor’s stories and enthusiasm give Need It, Don’t Want It welcome heart and humanity. This high-energy account cleverly lays bare the lessons founders learn when facing uncomfortable problems.” IndieReader called the book “an honest, structurally inventive account of building a business from the ground up that proves most persuasive in the chapters where the lessons come from various setbacks and failures.”
Chewing Glass takes its name from Avigdor’s description of what running a company feels like: being a CEO, he says, is mostly chewing glass. Rather than asking guests how they succeeded, the show will ask founders and business owners about what nearly ended their businesses, including missed payroll, bad hires, bad investors, and the setbacks founders usually keep private, and how they got through them.
“If you’ve gone through a world of pain and you’re still standing, I want to hear your story and how you got through it,” Avigdor said. “We’re going to talk about the pain, the blood, the sweat, the tears, the hardship.”
For Avigdor, the measure of a founder is what the business did for its people, not cars or money.
“Show me you emptied your personal bank account to make sure your employees got food on the table,” he said.
Need It, Don’t Want It will be published in hardcover and Kindle editions.
About Jay Avigdor
Jay Avigdor is Chairman and CEO of Velocity Capital Group, which he founded in 2018 from a folding table in a spare bedroom on Long Island. He entered alternative business finance as a teenager and has spent nearly two decades in the field. He is the author of Need It, Don’t Want It and the host of the upcoming podcast Chewing Glass.
About Velocity Capital Group
Velocity Capital Group is a financial services company focused on providing revenue-based financing solutions to businesses. The company uses technology, data-driven underwriting, and institutional operating practices to evaluate and provide business capital.
Website: https://www.velocitycg.com
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Each service has its own terms; the prop service uses demo accounts and is not a brokerage service.
Castries, Saint Lucia, October 28th, 2026 – Velaris Markets operates two services under one brand. Its brokerage offers CFDs on forex, indices, commodities and crypto on MetaTrader 5. Its prop service runs trading challenges on simulated accounts of up to $100,000: traders who pass and verify their identity receive a funded simulated account and 80% of the profit on that account, paid as a reward. Both services launched in July 2026.
Brokerage: two account types, no minimum deposit
The Standard account has spreads from 1.2 pips and no commission. The ECN account has spreads from 0.0 pips plus a commission of $7 per lot round turn on forex and metals. There is no minimum deposit. Leverage goes up to 1:200 on FX pairs and is lower on other asset classes. Clients deposit by card or in crypto (BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC). The client portal also offers copy trading, where a client’s own account follows a strategy provider, and Money Management (PAMM) pools run by pool managers.
Prop service: simulated accounts from $2,500 to $100,000
The prop service runs 1-Step challenges with account sizes from $2,500 to $25,000 and 2-Step challenges from $2,500 to $100,000, all on MT5, for a one-time fee starting at $29. There is no time limit to pass. A trader who passes and completes identity verification receives a funded account of the same size. Payouts run in 14-day cycles, and each payout request receives a decision within 48 hours. On the 2-Step challenge, the fee is returned with the first payout.
“Our experience in the industry shows that established firms in this business run both a brokerage and a prop structure, because together they build more trust in the brand,” said Yasen Dimitrov, Director of Velaris Markets. “A trader with a few hundred dollars has two options: trade that money directly, or pay a fee to prove a strategy on a larger simulated account. At Velaris the same trader can open a broker account with no minimum deposit, or start a $2,500 2-Step challenge for $29, where the most they can lose is the fee.”
Both services use the same support model. Live chat is open at any hour: an AI assistant answers first and hands over to the support team, which works Monday to Friday. The aim is to resolve the issue during the chat rather than open a ticket and reply later.
The brokerage is available at velarismarkets.com and the prop service at prop.velarismarkets.com. Neither service is available to citizens or residents of the United States or of sanctioned jurisdictions; the full lists are in each service’s terms.
About Velaris Markets
Velaris Markets Limited is a company incorporated in Saint Lucia in January 2026 under company number 2026-00083. It is not licensed by a financial regulator. Client funds at the brokerage are held separately from the company’s operating funds. The prop service is not a brokerage service and is not a regulated financial service; it is an evaluation program run on demo accounts.
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San Francisco, US, October 28th, 2026, FinanceWire
FinSight Ventures Launches $100 Million Physical AI Index Fund, Targeting the Third Wave of Artificial Intelligence
FinSight Ventures, a global technology investment fund with $1B+ AUM and a portfolio of 13 unicorns, announced the formation of the FinSight Physical AI Index Fund — its second thematic index fund and the first institutional vehicle dedicated exclusively to the Physical AI segment that interacts with the physical world.
The Fund targets a concentrated portfolio of 10–12 leading companies across four Physical AI segments — Robotics, AI for Science, Foundation Layer, and Hardware & Infrastructure — with an aggregate target capitalization of $5.7T by 2031.
“Physical AI is not a trend, but the third structural wave of artificial intelligence,” said Alexey Garyunov, Founder and General Partner of FinSight Ventures. “Perception AI gave machines eyes and ears. Generative AI gave them language. Physical AI gives them agency in the real world. We are now at the same inflection point that defined OpenAI and Anthropic in 2019 — except what is being built is an order of magnitude larger.”
The Fund’s investment thesis rests on a structural labor shortage that no conventional policy instrument can address at scale. According to UN projections, the working-age population across East Asia, Europe, and the United States will contract by 342 million people by 2050 — a cohort representing approximately 55% of global GDP. Migration flows are slowing down. Labor participation rates in advanced economies have reached their effective ceiling.
“We modeled every mechanism available to close a 342-million-person labor gap,” said Garyunov. “Offshoring runs against reshoring policy — the CHIPS Act, the IRA, the EU Chips Act. Migration is contracting, not expanding. Labor participation in developed markets is already at 74–80%. The only channel with growing capacity is automation through Physical AI. This represents a demographic inevitability rather than a simple technology bet.”
Market Context
According to PitchBook data, Physical AI’s share of global venture financing has grown from 0.8% in 2016 to 12% in 2025, with investment volume rising from $2.0B to $64.7B over the same period and reaching $72.2B in the first half of 2026 alone. The top 20 global venture funds have completed 345 transactions in the segment since 2022, two-thirds of them after January 2024.
The humanoid robot fleet is projected to reach between 330 million and 1 billion units by 2050, displacing an estimated $19.8T in annual labor value. At a 15–20% revenue capture rate and a 7.5–10x P/S multiple, the Physical AI sector is projected to carry a market capitalization of $22–40T by 2050.
“The enabling technologies converged in 2023–2025,” said Garyunov. “NVIDIA’s Cosmos world models solved the data problem — robots can now train millions of times faster in simulation than in the physical world. VLA models solved the intelligence problem — a single model sees, understands natural language, and acts. The EV supply chain solved the cost problem. The infrastructure for a Physical AI industry is in place. What follows is deployment at scale.”
About FinSight Ventures
FinSight Ventures is a global technology investment firm founded in 2012, with offices in the United States, India, and Cyprus. The fund manages $1B+ in assets across a portfolio that includes 13 unicorns. Portfolio companies comprise Klarna, Uzum, Razorpay, Cashea, Rappi, Punto Pago, and more than 80 other companies. Last year, FinSight launched the FinSight Gen AI Index Fund, which invested in 13 companies that represent the American AI Sector including Together AI, Fin AI, Crusoe, Glean among others.
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