– We believe that AI needs to be accessible to all businesses –
By re-thinking the way we work with computers, we aim to create affordable, attractively designed and user-friendly AI technology with uncompromised privacy, that empower users to leverage AI benefits and accelerate businesses’ value creation.
We are developing the very first smartcomputer, a revolutionary computer designed to easily deploy AIs in every business.

Indiana Valerian
CEO & Founder
Indiana Valerian is the CEO and founder of ANTS. Born in 1990 in Geneva, Switzerland, Indiana was a student in Physics at the highly reputed EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland and graduated as a Physicist at La Sorbonne University (Paris). He is an enthusiastic young entrepreneur with a talent to assemble great teams and manage projects. He is also very passionate about Artificial Intelligence and what its future development could do for the good of humanity
Indiana founded in 2016 PEACOCK AI, a Company offering AI development services to SMEs in Switzerland and France. The uniqueness of PEACOCK AI is that all employees are Masters or PHD students at EPFL. Following a few mandates, because of its simplicity and attractiveness, the model was exported to France and duplicated at l’X Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
PEACOCK AI has been the first private Company to establish in 2018 a commercial agreement with the EPFL for the exploitation of their supercomputer SCITAS for neural networks training.
Indiana is also working with the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and the Swiss Federal Intitute of Technology (EPFL) as a scientific & technical advisor for a pathology detection project assisted by Artificial Intelligence.
Indiana has designed the whole project development of ANTS and gathered several specialized Masters and PHD students to work on its development under his direction.
EPFL Innovation Park interview (21.02.2022)
X-Novation interview (03.08.2021)

Michel Hade
CCO
Michel Hade is the Chief Commercial Officer of ANTS. Born in 1957 in Montreal, Canada. He has been living in Switzerland for 20 years.
Michel is a versatile senior executive with an extensive background including successful general management positions in charge of Swiss and International markets. He has wide experience in multiple industries including Luxury Goods, Motorized Recreational Products, Pharmaceutical/Medical Devices and FMCG for Companies like Procter & Gamble, Bausch & Lomb, BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products), Bulova and Victorinox.
Michel has most recently been involved in consulting with local SMEs and entrepreneurs. He joined the ANTS project in early 2020 and is very passionate about bringing his experience, know-how, high energy and leadership to ANTS.

Pr. Jean-Philippe Ansermet
Advisory Board Member
Pr. Jean-Philippe Ansermet was born March 1, 1957 in Lausanne. He obtained a diploma as physics engineer of EPFL in 1980. He went on to get a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where, from 1985 to 1987, he persued as post-doc with Prof. Slichter his research on catalysis by solid state NMR studies of molecules bound to the surface of catalysts.
His research activities concern the fabrication and properties of magnetic nanostructures produced by electrodeposition. His involvement since the early days of spintronics have allowed him to gain recognition for his work on giant magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR), magnetic relaxation of single nanostructures, and was among the leading groups demonstrating magnetization reversal by spin-polarized currents. Furthermore, his group uses nuclear magnetic resonance , on the one hand as means of investigation of surfaces and electrodes, on the other hand, as a local probe of the electronic properties of complex ferromagnetic oxides.
Pr. Ansermet has joined ANTS A.I. Systems to offer his experience in Innovation Management. Besides his Full Professor activity at EPFL, his passion for forward-thinking projects has led him to join the EPFL Innovation Park ecosystem on cutting-edge technology startups.

Bernard Sulliger
Advisory Board Member
Bernard Sulliger, 57, a Swiss citizen, has worked his entire career in information technology.
As entrepreneur, Bernard Sulliger founded a dozen companies in Switzerland and Belgium, three of which were sold to large IT groups and five are still active. He has also held senior management positions as well as administrator. He is Chairman of Altipeak, a cybersecurity company.
In 2015, he founded his own consulting company with two main activities:
• Strategic consulting and coaching: management of processes of fundamental transformation (identity, business model, sales and digital strategy, organization). Coaching of startup.
• M&A: Management of merge & acquisition, fund raising and LBO operations. To his credit, he has completed some twenty transactions ranging from 2’000’000.- to 30’000’000.- CHF.
Bernard has a deep understanding of the SMB market and provides ANTS A.I. Systems with a clear vision of the needs of SMBs in the information technology era.

Lorris Follonier
Advisory Board Member
Lorris Follonier, born in 1986 in Geneva, is a superior officer in the Swiss Armed Forces. Lorris obtained his master’s degree in International Relations from the Institute of International Studies in Geneva and subsequently started his career as a project manager for the Geneva Business Union (FER) .
He has a multidisciplinary military career which allowed him to grow from field operations to the Swiss Staff troops as a connector between the army and the industry. Lorris also took positions in countries such as Singapore and worked for distinguished consulting firms (AWK).
He has led significant “HERMES 5.1” projects directly for Swiss governmental institutions. He’s currently assuming a senior management position at the business development department of RUAG. Lorris is also certified with ITIL, SCRUM, Six Sigma and is fluent in several languages.
Lorris brings to ANTS A.I. Systems an impressive skill set ranging from operational management to defense-level cybersecurity strategies.

2020: Hypozooming
You know the anxiety of the blank page? Well the opposite is just as scary. At the beginning of 2020, we were armed with a lot of assembly diagrams, architectural plans, independent modules and so on. In a word, we were preparing a labyrinth. Let a young physicist for 2 years with means to produce proto in an independent lab on a university campus full of students of all sections and you get a revolutionary technology but too raw to be adapted to the market.
Hypozooming is the process by which a raw idea must go through to be revealed like a diamond to the world. It is about cutting into the material, removing pieces and redesigning the cut. This is not done without the help of people who come to bring their experience. You should see the reaction of people when they are told: “We are building a general AI”. That’s when the “you shouldn’t…what if you do instead…” music starts. And here you have two choices:
1) Respond politely, and incorporate the thought into the development.
2) Attempt to fervently explain your vision.
In both cases, the result is not guaranteed.
An AI trained on all the meetings we have done for the project (about 3 trillion) will present us with a result clustered in two categories, unrelated to the strategy of the meeting:
after 11am: great
before 11am: no-go
So the management made a “data-driven” decision by setting the important meetings after 11am.
Not sure that an AI trained on all the data of the world, is really efficient to bring out a pattern adapted to our particular workflow. With this in mind, our hypozooming came from the observation of our own way of working. Let’s reduce the amount of data needed by algorithmic optimization approaches, increase the quality of the training dataset with specialized hardware and the rough diamond “general AI” becomes a “smartcomputer”.
Next step: 2021: Fundraising!
Stay tuned!
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