NEAR AI Adds Independent Verification

Ekaterina Bogatyreva

$NEAR AI Cloud has integrated Intel Trust Authority, adding independent verification to its confidential AI inference infrastructure. The service allows customers to receive an Intel-signed attestation token confirming that their workloads are running inside a genuine Intel TDX trusted execution environment.

$NEAR AI Cloud uses Intel TDX to isolate AI workloads in confidential virtual machines. Their memory is encrypted and protected from the host operating system, hypervisor, and infrastructure operator. $NEAR AI already validates the hardware attestation and makes the underlying evidence available for inspection.

The new integration adds a separate verification layer. Intel Trust Authority checks the cryptographic signatures and compares the trusted computing base with Intel’s reference values and policies. It then issues a signed JWT containing the verification result.

$NEAR AI Cloud is a platform for private AI inference and agents. Intel develops hardware and security technologies for confidential computing and enterprise infrastructure. Intel Trust Authority provides independent attestation services for confidential computing environments.

The verification token can be used by other systems to control access to protected workloads. For example, key management and security platforms can require a valid token before releasing sensitive data or encryption keys. This also gives enterprises third-party evidence that can be used in security and compliance processes.

$NEAR AI Cloud already serves organizations including Brave, Venice AI, Abound, the Government of Bermuda, OpenMind and Corbits.

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