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SINGAPORE – Viola.AI, the blockchain-powered dating and relationships AI has announced its strategic partnership with AI Singapore, a Singapore government initiative to catalyse, synergise and boost the nation’s AI capabilities, and Singapore Management University (SMU) to provide dating and relationship solution for singles, couples and married couples with quality matches, date arrangements, helpful relationship advice and recommendation of goods and services.
Viola.AI is the latest product by Singapore’s home-grown 14-year-old dating company Lunch Actually Group. Co-founders Violet Lim and Jamie Lee are leveraging on blockchain technology to employ a verification system that helps singles have the confidence that they are meeting genuine singles through real-time face scan, photo and social media checks. The Viola. AI team is also creating an evolving smart Love AI based on the user’s relationship status to help singles find their match and help couples nurture and grow their current relationships.
In 2017, Singapore’s total fertility rate dropped to 1.16, the second lowest ever recorded. According to the General Household Survey, the proportion of singles in the age group of 25–29 age group has sharply increase from 51.7% in 2000 to 71.4% in 2015 in the country. And despite most of them indicated that they wanted to get married in the future, nearly half of singles in Singapore have not dated seriously before, based on the latest study by National Population and Talent Division (NPTD). The top reason for not dating was not being able to find a partner.
“When we first heard of AI Singapore, we