Niobium Launches Encrypted Cloud Platform for Private AI

• •Niobium's The Fog platform allows encrypted data processing without exposing underlying information.
• •The platform uses fully homomorphic encryption and is now available in private beta.
• •Niobium is transitioning from hardware to cloud infrastructure, enhancing data security for organizations.

Niobium has introduced The Fog, an encrypted cloud platform for private AI and data processing, now in private beta. The service utilizes fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to enable organizations to run applications and AI workloads on encrypted data, with decryption keys retained by data owners. CEO Kevin Yoder emphasized that The Fog addresses the longstanding issue of data exposure in cloud computing. The platform is powered by Niobium's mistic Core FPGA accelerator, which reportedly offers up to twice the FHE performance of existing GPUs. Initial applications include encrypted semantic analysis, federated learning, and machine learning for network intrusion detection. The launch represents Niobium's shift from hardware to cloud infrastructure and software tools, with Rob Sherrard appointed as Head of Cloud to oversee development. The Fog aims to make encrypted computing practical and scalable for organizations handling sensitive data. Niobium is also developing an ASIC with SEMIFIVE and Samsung Foundry for improved performance.