NEW YORK | January 2026 — When global computing giant CoreWeave announced its strategic acquisition of a controlling stake in Animo in 2025, the capital markets were curious about this company deeply rooted in “virtual productivity”. Today, with the disclosure of Animo’s 2025 core operating data, a grand blueprint for a “Digital Factory” is becoming clear: the extraction of wealth from virtual worlds has officially entered the industrial age.

Redefining “Digital Labor” Standards

In the year 2025 just past, Animo’s flagship proprietary project, Animo Prime, delivered a performance that caught the industry’s attention. Within a production matrix deployed with 5,000 NVIDIA B200 computing units, Animo successfully validated its Agentic AI Cluster Harvesting system.

This is not an automated script in the traditional sense, but an efficiency revolution. Through an extreme management leverage of 1:500—where one strategy expert controls 500 nodes via the AI brain—Animo achieved a staggering annualized output of $22,000 per unit. After deducting high computing costs and R&D amortization, the annualized net profit per unit remained stable at $12,000. This figure not only shatters external perceptions of virtual asset acquisition as “fragmented and low-efficiency” but also marks that virtual productivity now possesses institutional-grade, replicable profitability.

A Five-Year Long March: Algorithm as Sovereignty

Animo’s breakout today actually stems from a five-year “technical long march”.

The story began in 2021 in Colorado. During an era when the industry was generally driven by low-end scripts, Animo’s founding team established “non-invasive computer vision” as their technical cornerstone. Over the following years, through closed-door collaboration with top-tier global gaming guilds, the team completed the extraction of over 500 million hours of real human behavioral data across multiple AAA virtual economies.

It is precisely this accumulation of 500 million hours that has endowed Animo’s Agentic AI Cluster Harvesting system with a sort of “lifelike instinct“. It is no longer a program passively executing instructions, but digital labor capable of perceiving, thinking, and making decisions like a top-tier player. In 2025, when CoreWeave’s physical computing sovereignty deeply coupled with Animo’s algorithmic soul, this accumulation transformed into an insurmountable competitive barrier.

Physical-Level Defense and the Dawn of “Nexus”

“We solve not only the question of ‘how to harvest,’ but more importantly, ‘how to sustain,'” stated Animo’s Head of Operations. Relying on CoreWeave’s bare-metal architecture, Animo achieved device fingerprint simulation at the physical level, fundamentally bypassing all audits targeting cluster operations.

But Animo’s ambition goes beyond its 5,000 proprietary machines. Following the closed-loop validation of the Prime model, Animo announced it will launch the “Animo Nexus Global Mesh” strategic plan in 2026, with the Animo Nexus client app as its core vehicle. The release of this app is seen as the “democratization moment” for virtual productivity—allowing globally distributed fragmented computing power to be mounted to Animo’s cluster brain with one click.

For Animo, this means a shift in identity from a “proprietary factory” to a “global asset management hub“. According to the established roadmap, Nexus will support a management scale of 210,000 nodes by 2028. Today, as virtual assets have become the third-largest high-frequency trading digital asset after bulk commodities, Animo is defining a new wealth order for the AI era.