Our Newest Fundraise - The Momentum & The Mission
Innovation doesn’t happen by accident—it’s forged through vision, grit, and genuine collaboration. Today, with Salt AI’s new funding, we’re more energized than ever to make AI accessible for innovators everywhere. We know our directives and could not be more proud of the progress made over the last few months. AI is the fastest moving force of modern times and we are just beginning to see what happens when humankind lassos the machines for meaningful innovation. We’re literally watching it happen (yes, at Salt) in real time with partners in Life Sciences and beyond.
Salt Ai was founded on the belief that no single model will ever be all-encompassing. Instead, complex, global issues will only be resolved by collections of models operating in concert within a unified framework. Imagine a musical orchestra or Philharmonic playing, each instrument, unique in sound but when orchestrated together…that’s THE ah ha moment.
That silico symphony is happening on keyboards around the world. Cue the Hans Zimmer music merging with Isaac Asimov stories of artificial intelligence.
Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity of working closely with Dr. David Agus and his team at the Ellison Medical Institute. Their mission and their approach to applying AI in cancer research have made this one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. The pace of progress with this group is inspiring, and Salt’s technology is connecting a wide range of R&D efforts into something greater. Twenty years ago I created “the like button” at MySpace- now, we’re helping to create novel protein candidates for testing in labs for prostate cancer on Salt. I love this.
None of this happens alone. We’re a distributed team across the globe - all singing the same tune and in total sync with one another. I am deeply grateful to the Salt team—many of whom I’ve collaborated with for over two decades, cutting our teeth in social media, gaming platforms and early machine learning. Jim Benedetto and I have mastered our business shorthand after working together on 4 different companies over the years and we feed off each other's sense of drive. Where we are today is clearly an output of how Jim and our team go after hard problems with meaning.
I’ve had the privilege of building technology platforms that scaled globally, but Salt is different. Our contextual, visual-first environment doesn’t just democratize access to advanced models—it makes collaboration a reality. We’re building the backbone for the next era of business innovation, where rapid iteration, transparency, and enterprise-grade reliability are not trade-offs, but expectations. The opportunity ahead for Salt—and for those innovating on our platform—is to redefine how the world thinks about AI: not as a black box, but as an open engine for discovery, efficiency, and meaningful global change.
This is the horizon that excites me: AI not as an isolated tool, but as the connective tissue underpinning all discovery—a transparent, adaptive, and radically collaborative process. To that point, collaboration is not just a feature—it’s the core value to how Salt operates, as a team or as a partner.
-Aber
