PARIS, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Thierry Ehrmann, founder of Artprice and CEO of Artmarket.com, and his family said they have full confidence in the future of Artmarket.com and in the growth of its activities, supported notably by substantial investments dedicated to the development of Artmarket.com's vertical AI. Vertical AI refers to artificial intelligence systems built and trained on domain-specific data for a particular industry, as opposed to general-purpose models like those powering widely available chatbots. The Ehrmann family and Groupe Serveur, the majority shareholder, plan to increase their shareholding in Artmarket.com through the acquisition of additional shares. Required disclosures will be made to the AMF (French Financial Markets Authority) and online within legal deadlines during authorized trading windows.

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From Progressive Transition to the “AI-First” Metamorphosis of the Artprice Meta-Database

Following an in-depth strategic review approved by the Board of Directors, Artprice — which describes itself as the global leader in art market information for nearly three decades — is carrying out a major shift in the integration of its proprietary artificial intelligence architectures, including “Intuitive Art Market®” and “Blind Spot®”.

From Incremental Deployment to an “AI-First” Architectural Shift

The company said its initial strategy involved a gradual, educational rollout of AI building blocks within its historical databases. While cautious, that approach fragmented the market's perception of the technological change underway. Artprice said AI is no longer an optional component, but the core matrix of the global economy.

The company compared piecemeal AI deployment in a long-established infrastructure to converting an internal combustion engine vehicle with analog controls into a digital electric vehicle while driving. It said clients struggle to measure the scale of the transition between the old and new systems, which can create operational inconsistencies. Artprice said it is now choosing clarity and higher standards by moving away from incremental deployments in favor of a global, seamless, fully realized transformation.

Financial Strength and Adjusted Schedule

Artprice said the revised deployment schedule has no impact on its financial trajectory. In a complex global economic environment marked by heightened geopolitical tensions and sharp volatility in energy costs, Artprice by Artmarket said its revenue continues to show steady growth. The company said this financial foundation gives it the independence to prioritize operational perfection over speed, unlike many listed companies that incorporate AI into their business models while seeking equity capital.

Act I: The Intra-Community Revolution

The restructuring centers on Artprice's core asset: nearly 180 interconnected proprietary databases forming a global meta-database, alongside its collection of manuscripts and sales catalogs from 1700 to the present day, which it says is unique worldwide to researchers and experts.

The first phase is being carried out internally. All group employees, departments and production units are being equipped with dedicated AI hardware and edge units. Before these tools are exposed to subscribers, the company said it is completing a full overhaul of internal workflows. Data collection, standardization and enrichment pipelines are being rewritten according to deep learning standards and proprietary algorithms.

Act II: Delivery of a Natively Transformed Database Platform

Once the internal value chain is fully calibrated, the platform will be released to subscribers. Artprice said the database platform will not appear as a set of incremental modules, but as a complete “AI-First” environment built on certified massive data, deep learning and algorithmic security.

By pursuing what it calls a comprehensive and structured metamorphosis, Artprice said it is reinforcing its position as a pioneer and turning 30 years of global art market information leadership into a sovereign engine of decision intelligence for the entire art market.

The company said that in an era where the open internet is being diluted by a surge of synthetic data — which it cited as 70% uncontrollable synthetic data as of June 30, 2026, according to Gartner Group and the Europol Innovation Lab — companies that own their full data value chain represent true citadels of cognitive sovereignty. Concerns about training data provenance and quality have grown across the AI industry as public model developers face lawsuits over copyrighted material used without permission in training corpora.

Artprice said mastering the process from raw capture to data mining, and then training deep learning models on tens of millions of unique records protected by patented algorithmic architectures, is no longer only digital asset management. It said the process establishes a monopoly on ground truth in a given market, in this case the art market.

Vertical AI and “Ontological Mutation”

Artprice said the evolution of its proprietary databases into vertical AI versions — “Intuitive Art Market®” and “Blind Spot®” — is not a simple technical update, but an ontological mutation.

According to Thierry Ehrmann, founder of Artprice and CEO of Artmarket, an ontological mutation is a radical transformation not of an entity's form, performance or functions, but of its fundamental nature, essence and mode of existence.

Applied to Artprice and its vertical AI and industrial process pipelines, the company said the transformation appears on three levels:

• From Information Container to Cognitive Organism: Artprice said it is evolving from a knowledge base into an autonomous cognitive architecture by embedding vertical AI at the core of its sovereign infrastructure.
• The Metamorphosis of Data: Art market data is changing from a static archival trace into a dynamic, predictive and living semantic matrix capable of contextualizing and analyzing the market in real time.
• Ontological Sovereignty of the Process: Artprice said ownership of the entire industrial chain, from proprietary raw data to the vertical language model without third-party application dependencies, guarantees systemic self-sufficiency. AI, the company said, is not a tool added to the model, but the substance of its operation.

Five Strategic Axes of the AI Mutation

From Information Container to Deterministic Oracle

Artprice said the value of its databases has historically depended on indexing depth and search precision. It said integrating a proprietary vertical AI transforms passive but incorruptible data into active decision intelligence.

The company said generic large language models suffer from hallucinations because of the porosity of their training corpora, while vertical AI backed by a sovereign data pipeline operates in a closed loop. According to Artprice, the system does not generate plausibility; it produces explainable certainty backed by traceability.

The Emergence of High-Value Sovereign Agency

Artprice said user interaction is moving from a traditional query-response model to complex agentic automation. Subscribers, it said, will no longer search only for individual records or historical statistics; instead, they will task an autonomous Artprice agent trained exclusively on the company's data asset to perform arbitrage, simulate forward-looking scenarios or model risks with precision.

The company said vertical AI becomes an augmented collaborator that unlocks the value of millions of data pairs accumulated over decades by Artprice by Artmarket.

Valuing Scarcity Amid the Synthetic Flood

Artprice said that as the marginal cost of creating generic content falls toward zero, the relative value of historical, certified and non-replicable databases rises sharply. It described companies controlling these sealed pipelines as holding the only unpolluted “raw oil wells” of the digital world.

The company said its subscription model no longer sells access to information, but access to critical information asymmetry for strategic, financial or operational decision-making, through annual subscriptions priced at $1,600 to $2,500.

Algorithmic Interfacing and Restricted Hybridization

Artprice said these companies will not isolate themselves completely, but will evolve their access models. The company said the future lies in predictive APIs and inference sub-systems that can integrate directly into institutional clients' workflows.

Rather than delivering raw data, Artprice said it will distribute embedded intelligence modules, making its algorithmic ecosystem indispensable and closely linked to subscribers' operating processes.

Continuous Capture and Closed Feedback Loop

Artprice said every query and analysis performed by privileged users within its vertical AI feeds back into and enriches the underlying data structure through continuous fine-tuning and metadata enrichment.

The company said this creates a technological flywheel: the more the databases are queried by experts through AI, the more the system refines its semantic and predictive understanding of the market, widening the gap with competitors.

Artprice said these databases will no longer be viewed as digital libraries, but as sovereign inference engines. By controlling both the fuel — tens of millions of certified data points — and the engine — vertical AI and proprietary algorithms — the company said it is redefining paid strategic intelligence and elevating data exclusivity as a standard of the algorithmic era.

Strategic Summary: Encapsulation and Rigour for the High-End Offer

Artprice said that, backed by its two proprietary artificial intelligences, Intuitive Art Market and Blind Spot, it has adjusted its launch calendar to finalize a high-end subscription designed to place technological power behind ease of use.

The company said the top priority is to fully encapsulate algorithmic complexity between its data production pipelines and the customer operational stage. Subscribers should no longer need to manipulate complex filters or settings, according to Artprice; instead, interaction should occur naturally between members and the company's sovereign AIs.

In the art market, Artprice said this requires strict discipline. The AI must master domain terminology and operate in more than 40 languages while respecting the rule of art history that artwork titles must not be translated. Preserving original nomenclature and historical protocols, the company said, remains non-negotiable.

To improve the user experience, Artprice said the interface includes predictive guidance that suggests relevant follow-up questions from the first natural-language prompt. The company said there is zero margin for error in a proprietary AI powered by fully standardized and certified databases.

Artprice said its AIs are currently undergoing rigorous beta testing to ensure intuitive and rewarding adoption across all user generations.

From Valuation Algorithm to Systemic Paradigm: The “BLIND SPOT©” Dynamics

Initially conceived as a microeconomic modeling tool within Artprice, Blind Spot© was designed to solve the price discontinuity equation between two public auction sales. The company said that by relying on an artist's global index history and the traceability of auction sales — for example, a Jackson Pollock work auctioned for $4 million in 1998 reaching $58 million in 2026 — Blind Spot calculated the reconstruction of value during intervals of market opacity.

Artprice said the rise of vertical AI architectures and the formalization of its theoretical corpus revealed a deeper truth: the blind spot is not merely a statistical gap, but the underlying structure of data and the fundamental lever for accessing market truth.

According to Thierry Ehrmann, Blind Spot has become a 360-degree investigation engine able to detect what escapes traditional modeling across several dimensions:

• Biographical & Corpus Consistency: Applied to artistic career trajectories, Blind Spot analyzes abnormal proliferation of works that do not align with an artist's documented biography. Artprice said an artist's biography establishes the physical boundaries of production, identifies creative shifts and isolates peak periods sought after by collectors. By cross-referencing market volume indices with real biographical pacing, the AI detects flow anomalies and authenticates scarcity.
• Macroeconomic & Geopolitical: On a global market scale, Blind Spot isolates external factors that explain sudden drops in activity for a financial center or country. The system cross-checks weak signals, including regulatory, tax and sociopolitical factors, to explain trend disruptions and anticipate geographic shifts in capital, according to the company.
• Aesthetic & Cross-Recommendation: Artprice said collectors often remain confined within rigid classifications of official artistic movements. Blind Spot breaks these silos by identifying formal, material or conceptual correspondences between artists from different movements and recommending works outside collectors' usual scope.
• Operational & Calendar Alignment: The company said integrating cultural, civil, national and religious calendars into the model helps explain delays or pauses in acquisition activity. This understanding of societal cycles allows pre- and post-capture adjustments.
• Cross-Functional Innovation Among Teams: Artprice said the Blind Spot concept also affects internal organization by identifying organizational blind spots and encouraging employees to contribute ideas beyond their departments, which it said enriches collective intelligence.

Artprice said Blind Spot is now a guiding principle for its broader vision, converting market, data and organizational blind zones into strategic assets.

Deterministic and Probabilistic AI Agents

The company said its technological infrastructure has reached a key milestone through two complementary agentic architectures: deterministic AI for structured data collection and probabilistic AI for strategic commercial expansion.

Deterministic Agentic Agents: Sovereign Collection and Data Exclusivity

Artprice said it has already deployed deterministic agentic agents developed from its earlier web scraping and crawler systems. The company said these agents operate without drift or interpretation and interact only under contractual agreements and formal partnerships with its network of 7,200 auction house partners.

Their mission, according to Artprice, is to extract, index and structure a highly detailed data corpus that includes significant confidential information not available on the open web. By excluding a probabilistic approach at the capture stage, the company said it guarantees scientific rigor and absolute certainty.

Probabilistic Agentic Agents: Targeting the US Market

To support expansion in the US market, which Artprice described as the world's primary art market with substantial revenue potential, the company said it is deploying probabilistic agentic agents designed for local, linguistic and cultural specificities across US states. The US has consistently ranked as the largest single national art market by sales value in industry reports, including the annual Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report.

The company said these agents model behavior to identify major collectors, professionals and institutions operating outside traditional sales channels.

Media Synergy: The Impact of Artprice News

Artprice said this acquisition framework is reinforced by Artprice News, its global art market news agency. The company said the agency publishes real-time dispatches nearly every hour, with strong emphasis on the North American ecosystem, and continuously engages decision-makers.

According to Artprice, the combination of deterministic data depth and probabilistic market penetration creates a customer acquisition engine.

Copyright 1987-2026 thierry Ehrmann www.artprice.com – www.artmarket.com

For information purposes, Thierry Ehrmann said he has completed an 1,800-page philosophical and scientific essay dedicated to artificial intelligence from 1987 to the present day. He said the central chapters trace Artprice's human history and the global construction of a universal memory of the art market, shaped by encounters with pioneers in art market sociology and historical market figures. The work will be released globally in digital and print formats, with the English version to be released before the French edition.

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Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris. The latest TPI analysis includes more than 18,000 individual shareholders, excluding foreign shareholders, companies, banks, FCPs and UCITS: Euroclear: 7478 – Bloomberg: PRC – Reuters: ARTF.

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Artmarket and its Artprice department were founded in 1997 by Thierry Ehrmann, the company's CEO. They are controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987. The certified biography from Who's Who In France© is available here:

Artmarket said it is a global player in the art market with its Artprice department, which it describes as the world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information. Its databanks contain more than 30 million indices and auction results covering more than 915,300 artists.

Artprice Images® provides unlimited access to what the company describes as the world's largest art market image bank, with 181 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented on by art historians.

Artmarket, with its Artprice department, says it continuously enriches its databases from 7,200 auction houses and publishes art market trends for major agencies and press titles in 121 countries and 11 languages.

Artmarket.com makes available to its 9.3 million members the advertisements posted by its members, who now constitute the first global Standardized Marketplace® for buying and selling artworks at fixed prices.

Artmarket said there is now a future for the art market with Artprice's Intuitive Artmarket® AI.

Artmarket, with its Artprice department, has twice been awarded the French Public Investment Bank's state label “Innovative Company,” which has supported the company's project to strengthen its position as a global player in the art market.

Artprice by Artmarket publishes its 2025 Global Art Market Annual Report, published in March 2026:

Artprice by Artmarket publishes its 2025 Contemporary Art Market Report:

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Its head office is the Museum of Contemporary Art Abode of Chaos, described by The New York Times as La Demeure du Chaos:

Madame Rachida Dati, French Minister of Culture, has granted official recognition to Thierry Ehrmann's Abode of Chaos as a “total work of art,” the global headquarters of Artprice by Artmarket:

La Demeure du Chaos/Abode of Chaos – Total Work of Art and Singular Architecture. Confidential bilingual work, now made public:

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