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SharonAI partners with VAST Data to bring confidential AI enclave to onshore customers
SharonAI Holdings Inc.
- Collaboration brings VAST DataEnclave to AI Factory; hardware-isolated secure runtime with cryptographic attestation for onshore AI model execution.
- Targets regulated orgs (banks, government) in Australia and Asia-Pacific; supports fully air-gapped deployments; operator cannot access data or model weights.
- Uses NVIDIA GPUs in Confidential Compute mode; Bring Your Own KMS keeps customer and model keys in separate trust domains; tamper-proof audit trail records all attestation events.
- Expands SharonAI's sovereign AI Factory to attested confidential workloads; CEO James Manning says customers gain demonstrated, not just declared, sovereignty.