FortifAI (ASX: FTI) will secure an exclusive licence to Nol8 “data-in-motion” technology with the acquisition of Perth-based private company FastAI.
Under the terms of the deal, FortifAI will issue 155 million shares to shareholders and noteholders of FastAI and Technion Research & Development Foundation (TRDF)—a subsidiary of Nol8 developer Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
FortfiAI will also issue 150 million performance rights to FastAI shareholders involved in the ongoing development, commercialisation, and promotion of Nol8 and FastAI’s business operations post settlement.
FastAI, via subsidiary Celerriem, has been granted a licence to use the product known as ‘Nol8 – Next-Generation Binary Search Technology’ from TRDF, pursuant to the formal licence agreement.
IP-Rich Technology Platform
“We look forward to working with FastAI to integrate, develop and commercialise Nol8,” FortifAI chair Shannon Robinson said.
“Together with our established game development expertise, this acquisition accelerates our evolution into an intellectual property-rich technology platform.”
Celerrium co-founder and former chief executive officer of Weebit Nano (ASX: WBT) Yosef Keret will join FortifAI’s board of directors on completion of the acquisition.
Mr Keret said Nol8’s breakthrough technology would replace data and legacy pipelines that “cannot keep up with the modern world”.
“Nol8 allows applications to search live data, decide instantly, and act in real time at speeds and scales that were previously impossible,” he said.
“As data growth outstrips global storage and energy capacity, Nol8 is positioned at the centre of a generational shift from batch-based analytics to real-time intelligent systems—it is an architectural replacement for a failing global paradigm.”
Gaming Market Targeted
Technion began developing the transformational Nol8 engine in 2020 to replace slow, storage-dependent data pipelines with a high-performance “data-in-motion” architecture for applications requiring speed, low latency, and massive scale at economic costs such as the US$455 billion gaming market.
Instead of analysing data after it reaches storage (also known as “data-at-rest”), Nol8 processes and classifies data instantly as it flows, enabling live search, instant decision-making and real-time action.
The aim is for game developers to integrate Nol8 as a backend engine for playtesting, quality assurance, and intelligent-level design.
Nol8 can process data with microsecond-grade latency at scale, representing a significant advancement in current data processing capabilities and addressing critical challenges in the data storage industry as AI and autonomous applications generate increasingly large data volumes.
Performance testing shows up to 400x latency improvement and 160× performance uplift, with a single Nol8 appliance equivalent to 5,000 central processing units as well as scale capability of 100 gigabytes per second throughput with deterministic, millisecond-grade performance under extreme load.
Industry research forecasts a 50-fold increase in data production over the next decade, creating substantial demand for enhanced processing solutions.
