Launch in 160 Countries across All Continents on Android and iOS

NYOUM LTD, the London-based technology company, today announced the global launch of its generative AI communication platform,YOUM.

YOUM is a generative AI communication platform for friends only. No followers. No likes. No fakes. YOUM is the antagonist to social media. With “you and me” at the centre of everything. In multi-mode, and multimedia.

“YOUM is a total rethink of communication. Human, any mode, radically private and liberating from the toxic world of social media.” says Christopher Schlaeffer, NYOUM’s Founder and Executive Chairman, “After a successful beta, we are excited to launch YOUM on Android and iOS in 160 countries and 49 languages across all continents today.”

YOUM uses embedded generative AI to reimagine how people communicate on a computing device. With a multimedia Feed to watch, listen, read and react for friends only. With radically private Threads. With Multi-modal Messaging powered by generative AI for image and audio capture. With Instant Translation. With Universal Search. And Moments to record and share your day with loved ones.

Radically Private

Privacy is not an unavoidable casualty of the internet. YOUM is built on a new decentralised model for radical privacy. Processing and generative AI is kept on device wherever possible. Encryption is a given. User data is not exposed to anyone, including YOUM. 

Equal Reward

YOUM will serve an ad only with explicit user permission. And because ads monetise user data, YOUM will set a new paradigm by paying users 50% of value generated by every ad. 

Ultimately owned by users

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, YOUM is committed to democratising the platform by transferring ownership from investors to users within five years in a single transaction. This is conditional to reaching at least 100 million Daily Active Users (DAU) and more than 2/3 of users participating in the offering.

Generative AI on device

“YOUM uses real-time Video-to-video AI and open source Large Language Models (LLM) to enable transformative forms of visual expression and communication.” says James Ellis-Reeves, NYOUM’s Co-Founder and CTO, “Turning technology architecture on its head, every one of our AI models is deployed serverless on-device to work both online and offline and radically protect privacy.”
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_‍About NYOUM

NYOUM is a technology company based in London. The Company’s flagship platform, YOUM, is a generative AI communication platform for friends only. For more information on NYOUM, please visit: http://nyoum.com/.

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About Christopher Schlaeffer

Christopher Schlaeffer (born August 23, 1969) is a European technology entrepreneur and founder of NYOUM, yetu and science.now. He previously served as Chief Digital Officer of VEON (NASDAQ: VEON) as well as Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Corporate Development Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Deutsche Telekom (Xetra: DTE). Together with Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Chou and Cole Brodman he launched the world’s first mobile phone based on Android in 2008. In 2007, he and Tim Cook closed Apple’s first partnership for the iPhone outside the US. Christopher started his career with Accenture. He has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, ranked one of the Top-50 Innovators To Watch, named "Manager of the Year 2022" in his native Austria and was a Member of the Board at Amnesty International.

‍About James Ellis-Reeves

James Ellis-Reeves is a passionate software craftsman who has led development across a wide range of technologies and platforms. Prior to serving as Head of Mobile Development at VEON (NASDAQ: VEON), Jim led Android and Amazon Fire development at the Ordnance Survey, the UK’s National Mapping Agency, bringing their paper maps into the digital consumer space and was the lead Mobile Developer at Wunelli, a subsidiary of LexisNexis and RELX (LES:REL), building driving telematics applications for the likes of Admiral and AXA. Jim started his software career building financial based Desktop Applications for the Gattaca Group (LSE: GATC) before moving into mobile focused projects in 2012. Born in 1980 in Southampton, UK, Jim spent time seeing the world through short stints as a Mechanical Engineer in the British Army and Merchant Navy.

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