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How does NVIDIA Confidential Computing impact inference and training performance?

How does NVIDIA Confidential Computing impact inference and training performance?

The first public benchmarks of confidential computing overhead on NVIDIA Blackwell for inference and training.

Tanya Verma and Jules Drean

June 23, 2026

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Towards Search, Memory, and More

Towards Search, Memory, and More

A look at the infrastructure groundwork behind two features coming to Tinfoil Chat: semantic search across your history and cross-chat memory that does not compromise on privacy.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

June 16, 2026

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Auditing a Frontier Model Without Seeing its Weights

Auditing a Frontier Model Without Seeing its Weights

How Pour Demain used Tinfoil Containers to run gray-box interpretability evals on a 744B parameter model inside confidential enclaves, without exposing the weights.

Daniel McCann-Sayles and Tanya Verma

June 9, 2026

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Supply Chain Security - Part 1

Supply Chain Security - Part 1

How Tinfoil thinks about supply chain security for client-side code and build infrastructure.

Miles Dai

May 1, 2026

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Introducing Tinfoil Containers

Introducing Tinfoil Containers

Tinfoil Containers lets you deploy your application backend, your training pipeline, or your proprietary model on Tinfoil and build end-to-end verifiably private AI services.

Tinfoil Team

March 10, 2026

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How Tinfoil Proves Exactly What Model Is Running

How Tinfoil Proves Exactly What Model Is Running

How we cryptographically guarantee that we are serving specific, untampered model weights that clients can verify on each request.

Tinfoil Team

February 3, 2026

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Sharing Conversations Without Sharing With Tinfoil

Sharing Conversations Without Sharing With Tinfoil

How we built shareable conversation links while preserving conversation privacy.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

January 26, 2026

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How We Implemented Private AI Web Search

How We Implemented Private AI Web Search

A look into our system design, threat model, and evaluation for private web search—architected so that even Tinfoil cannot see your search queries.

Tinfoil Team

January 22, 2026

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Building a Browser-Native Verification Stack for Tinfoil

Building a Browser-Native Verification Stack for Tinfoil

Learn how we built a browser-based confidentiality and integrity verifier with implementations of browser-native Sigstore and TUF libraries.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber and Giulio Berra

December 18, 2025

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Private Chat Backups with Local-First Principles

Private Chat Backups with Local-First Principles

Introducing encrypted chat backups and multi-device syncing that extends our end-to-end privacy principles to persistent cloud storage.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

September 24, 2025

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Launching qwen3-coder-480B

Launching qwen3-coder-480B

Fully private coding with qwen3-coder-480b.

Tinfoil Team

September 2, 2025

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Encrypted ChatGPT?

Encrypted ChatGPT?

Sam Altman announced OpenAI is considering encrypted chats for ChatGPT. We explore the technical challenges and why true privacy might require OpenAI to actually be "open".

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

August 22, 2025

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Launching gpt-oss-120b on Tinfoil

Launching gpt-oss-120b on Tinfoil

OpenAI just released gpt-oss-120b. We just made it available on Tinfoil with verifiable privacy guarantees.

Tinfoil Team

August 5, 2025

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Got Privacy?

Got Privacy?

An in-depth comparison of AI privacy solutions that explains why secure enclaves offer the best balance of privacy and performance for AI applications today.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

May 15, 2025

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What About Side-Channels?

What About Side-Channels?

A deep dive into side channel attacks, why they matter for AI security, and how Tinfoil provides defenses against these sophisticated threats.

Jules Drean

May 15, 2025

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Oblivious Is Not Always Private

Oblivious Is Not Always Private

Learn how Tinfoil compares to Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) and what the right solution is for AI applications requiring data privacy.

Sacha Servan-Schreiber

May 10, 2025

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Shrinking the Complexity Risks in AI Cloud Deployments

Shrinking the Complexity Risks in AI Cloud Deployments

Learn how Tinfoil reduces complexity to provide better transparency and security.

Tinfoil Team

February 27, 2025

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Running Private DeepSeek R1 with Verifiable Security

Running Private DeepSeek R1 with Verifiable Security

Try out Tinfoil Private Chat with DeepSeek R1.

Tinfoil Team

February 2, 2025

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How Does Tinfoil Compare to Apple Private Cloud Compute?

How Does Tinfoil Compare to Apple Private Cloud Compute?

Learn how Tinfoil compares to other confidential computing platforms in terms of security and usability.

Jules Drean

January 30, 2025

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Publish, Audit, Attest: How Tinfoil Builds Trust

Publish, Audit, Attest: How Tinfoil Builds Trust

Learn how Tinfoil builds trust through code transparency, automated builds, transparency logs, and automated code attestation.

Tinfoil Team

January 13, 2025

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Tinfoil Enclaves: An Overview

Tinfoil Enclaves: An Overview

Learn how Tinfoil provide confidential computing with hardware-level isolation, integrity verification, and code transparency.

Tinfoil Team

January 10, 2025

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Introduction to Tinfoil

Introduction to Tinfoil

Discover how Tinfoil enables verifiably private AI deployment using secure hardware enclaves, extending local security boundaries to the cloud.

Tinfoil Team

January 6, 2025

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