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“Thunderbolt exists so people and organizations can own their AI stack instead of renting it. Tinfoil lets us ship models that work the moment you open the app, with a hardware guarantee that nobody, including us, can see what you send.”
“Running our own custom Docker container on Tinfoil Containers is a major unlock. It lets us run our full end-to-end system in trusted hardware using the same simple Python SDK we already use to call Tinfoil's embedding and LLM models. Serverless enclaves have finally arrived!”
“You can’t get useful help from an AI on a stripped-down copy of the problem. Tinfoil lets us work on the real thing without giving up privacy.”
screenpipe“Our customers in defense and regulated industries can’t use OpenAI or Anthropic at all. With Tinfoil, they get frontier-quality models and can verify against the open-source code that it’s private and running the right model. I don’t know of any other alternative that would unblock us here.”
“We have fast deployment cycles for servers that we run on Tinfoil TEEs to guarantee customer privacy. Tinfoil Containers makes the TEE deployment friction almost nonexistent and lets us iterate quickly. It's an important step towards the future where most ML workloads are secured by running on verifiably-private TEEs.”
“We wanted to prove that an LLM auditor could run on untrusted infrastructure with no one, including us, able to read the inputs. Tinfoil gave us the ability to easily run confidential GPUs with a public, reproducible attestation chain, so we could focus on the protocol and the plan format instead of building a secure enclave stack from scratch.”
Pour Demain, a Brussels-based AI policy think tank, used Tinfoil Containers to build a verifiable clean room for auditing frontier models: the auditor brings the eval, the lab brings its weights, and both get cryptographic proof of exactly what ran.
People and developers who rely on Tinfoil Chat and Tinfoil Inference.
“I really appreciate that the Tinfoil team has put so much time and care into creating a private AI chatbot. It's nice to know that my conversations are private so I can explore my ideas and not have my data mined or used for training.”
“I use Tinfoil in chat mode for topics that I want to keep private: health, family, financial, personal writing. It is fast, open, with top models, and is genuinely private. The interface is polished. When I've hit a bug, the team fixed it fast. That is how AI should be.”
“Since discovering Tinfoil, I've pretty much stopped using Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini. The Tinfoil platform is simply much better and more enjoyable to use.”
“Tinfoil is what private AI should look like: verifiable enclave architecture, real model quality, and my data never leaves my control. The attestation and open-source inference code mean I don't have to take their word for it. This is the level of transparency privacy tools should meet.”
“I switched over from Venice AI and have used Tinfoil AI for a month now, and what a breath of fresh air it has been for me personally and for my career. Tinfoil AI uses real context numbers, not phantom ones, meaning the AI agents don't suspiciously forget earlier context at 76% context. Tinfoil AI ensures every prompt written is secured with verifiable proof. Tinfoil AI's encrypted cloud sync makes it easy to take the conversation on the road with you without sacrificing confidentiality. Every part of Tinfoil AI is authentic, even down to its team; their creators aren't too good to interact with their user base when it comes to technical issues and ideas, and are always transparent with their decision-making. You won't find a more authentic AI company.”
“I like how I can access SOTA open-source models with confidence that my chats are only visible to me. Tinfoil communicates well with its customers and delivers a modern, continuously updated chatbot app. Their AI safety features are well thought through also; this is the type of leadership we need in the space. I can't recommend it more!”
“I entrust a lot of private matters to AI. Knowing that no one is reading over my shoulder is really invaluable, and Tinfoil has found a clever way to restore trust in using AI without needing to take them on faith. I really appreciate the work they do with open-source verification and secure enclave attestation!”
“I had been searching for a privacy-preserving alternative to mainstream LLM chats when I came across Tinfoil; from that moment, I never looked back. It really changed my approach to AI and showed me the value of open source and transparency. The team behind it is competent and passionate about their stated mission, and I am grateful to them for building such an ambitious product.”
“Sometimes I have questions (legal, medical, etc.) that I would ask a trusted advisor but would feel very uncomfortable asking a service that retains all my chats for an indefinite amount of time. Tinfoil has been great for these. The models are quite good, and I find the site easy to use, whether on my phone or in Tor Browser. The team takes security very seriously, and it shows in their product.”
“Anything to do with my kids goes into Tinfoil. Kids are life's greatest joy but a lot of work. Having AI organize and keep everything on the rails is incredibly helpful, but I don't want my kids' sensitive data out there. Tinfoil is doing great stuff.”
“What makes Tinfoil special is its commitment to privacy, backed by encryption and secure enclaves, to help you protect your privacy as you use AI models. Privacy is critical in the modern era, as it is the fundamental right necessary to enable your other fundamental rights. Privacy provides the right to be left alone, so we can freely gather information and develop our political and social ideas, whether through code or prose, without someone looking over our shoulder.”
“Tinfoil lets people who lack the hardware or expertise to self-host open-weight models use them in the cloud without giving the provider access to their prompts and responses. It makes private AI accessible without the burden of running it yourself.”
“I recently learned about the Tinfoil API and have found it easy to use and affordable. I love being able to use it for personal projects with confidence that my data is secure.”
“A given level of frontier intelligence is eventually distilled into small, private models. But I need that intelligence now, not in six months, and I need my GPU free for other work: rendering, simulations, etc. Tinfoil is a perfect fit for my needs.”
“I have been using open-weight models for coding for two years. Over that time, I experienced many issues with degraded output and failed tool calls, with no way to verify what is actually being served upstream. Tinfoil is the only inference API I have found where I can verify both the model and the privacy claims myself. For coding agents, it feels like running on my own machine: known weights, no data policies to understand. I'd much rather read TEE code than legal agreements.”
“In a world where powerful new open-weight models are being launched every other week, there is a shocking lack of concern regarding privacy that goes beyond a simple promise of ZDR. The need for verifiably private compute should be top of mind for everybody right now, and Tinfoil is pioneering the space.”
“Tinfoil is great. It provides an easy to use API that you can plug into the harness of your choice without having to manage TEE infrastructure yourself. So, you can easily get the data security you need with the top OSS models and toggle to frontier models as needed.”
“Tinfoil has been a lifesaver for our business. We needed a reliable AI solution, but we can't send private or proprietary data and code to big AI companies. Our options were to either commit to purchasing, maintaining, and upgrading very expensive (and difficult to obtain) hardware year after year, or pay as we go with Tinfoil. It was really a no-brainer; After reading their blogs we trust their architecture to actually be secure, and compared to the other option we've already saved a ton on costs.”