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cloud · building · beta 2026

Confidential AI inference.Iceland hardware. Swiss legal home.

A frontier-grade open-weight model on confidential GPUs. Iceland hardware, Swiss legal home, customer-pinned weights. Nothing logged. Nothing persists.

Reykjanesbær, ISNVIDIA Confidential ComputeZürich Stiftung (in formation) · Art. 271 SCC

The cluster is being stood up in a Reykjanesbær colocation. Geothermal power, sub-zero ambient cooling, Icelandic data-protection law on top of EU GDPR. The operating entity is forming as a Swiss Stiftung in Zürich. Helping a foreign government compel data will be a personal crime against the directors under Art. 271 SCC.

the round trip

One request. Plaintext lives in one place.

The customer SDK encrypts the prompt to the enclave's public key. The relay forwards opaque bytes. The TEE decrypts inside the GPU, runs inference, re-encrypts the output, zeros its memory. Plaintext exists only inside node 03.

  1. 01 · Client
    Encrypted on your device.

    SDK wraps your prompt with the GPU enclave's public attestation key. The key was issued by NVIDIA's silicon root of trust. We never see plaintext.

  2. 02 · Transit
    Sealed envelope.

    TLS to a forwarding endpoint that only relays opaque bytes onto the Iceland cluster. The endpoint has no decryption material. Its job is delivery.

  3. 03 · Enclave
    Decrypted only inside the GPU.

    Blackwell-class Confidential Computing: code + weights run inside a hardware boundary; cleartext never leaves the GPU. Reproducible enclave build, hash signed and published.

  4. 04 · Result
    Re-encrypted, plaintext destroyed.

    Output is re-encrypted to your key on the way out. Enclave memory is zeroed. There is no log to subpoena because there is no log.

honest scope

What we promise. What we will not claim.

Our buyers are lawyers and security leads. We write the limits down.

We promise
  • Data-absence: nothing at rest to seize or produce.
  • Hardware isolation with customer-verifiable remote attestation.
  • Jurisdictional friction against foreign compulsion (Art. 271 SCC).
  • A published threat model that names where the guarantees end.
We will not claim
  • That it’s mathematically impossible for us to comply. A state with physical hardware access is a real adversary.
  • Zero-knowledge proofs of frontier inference (not feasible at scale yet).
  • That Swiss domicile alone is a shield. Without data-absence, jurisdiction only slows the subpoena.
pricing

Posted brackets. No sales call to see the number.

Hidden enterprise pricing signals distrust. Final numbers are negotiated per cohort, but the brackets are public.

Self-hosted

Dispatcher

FreeMIT, source publishing 2026

The MCP-native sub-agent dispatcher will be self-hostable on your infrastructure when source publishes under MIT. Bring your own provider keys; bring your own enforcement.

  • +MCP-native dispatcher + ledger
  • +Per-agent + per-tenant budget caps
  • +Provenance trailers in commits
  • +BYOT provider keys
  • +MIT license; source publishing 2026
Hosted dispatcher

Per-token + routing fee

+ 10%markup

We run the dispatcher; you keep your provider quota and ledger. Customers pay their provider directly plus our routing fee. Bench-tested today.

  • +xanadu.run/mcp endpoint
  • +Per-tenant ledger + Stripe billing
  • +10% routing fee on raw provider cost
  • +Per-tenant monthly caps
  • +BYOT provider keys (Anthropic + OpenRouter)
Confidential cloud

Design-partner program

$50k/ year, range

Annual contract for design partners. Bench access during build, locked pricing through GA, named-partner threat-model addendum.

  • +Reykjanesbær enclave bench access
  • +Up to 50M tokens / month included
  • +$1.20 to $3.40 per 1M tokens overage (per model tier)
  • +Co-authored threat-model addendum
  • +Quarterly transparency audit, NDA shared

Confidential-compute carries an honest 4 to 8% overhead vs. public-cloud inference, plus the cost of running the Iceland colocation. We price to that overhead at scale and to the design-partner economics below it. We will publish actual unit economics on the transparency report we commit to alongside the public beta.

vs the alternatives

Why pay the overhead?

What you get against the obvious comparables.

CapabilityOpenAI EnterpriseAnthropic EnterpriseSelf-host open weightsXanadu Cloud
Provider can read your promptsYes (zero-retention removes storage; access is unchanged)Yes (zero-retention enterprise tier)Yes (you are the provider)No (operator holds no plaintext by design)
Provider can be subpoenaed for your dataYes (US jurisdiction)Yes (US jurisdiction)Whoever runs the hardwareArchitecturally cannot produce
Customer-verifiable that the published code is the code that ranNoNoIf you built itYes (reproducible enclave + GPU attestation)
Frontier-quality model availableYesYesOpen weights, frontier-adjacentOpen weights inside the enclave
Onboarding latencyDaysDaysWeeks (you build it)Cohort onboarding, weeks
Posture against state-level adversaryNone claimedNone claimedWhatever you buildStated honestly. See /threat-model.
frequently asked

Questions a buyer asks.

What model runs in the enclave?

An open-weight frontier model whose weights are content-addressed and pinned at attestation time. Current target is a 1T-parameter open-weight model on Blackwell-class confidential hardware. Customers can verify the running weights match the published hash at session establishment.

How can you bill us if you can't see what we did?

Metering happens via cryptographic accumulators inside the enclave. Prompt and output token counts are signed and emitted as billing telemetry. The prompts themselves never leave. The ledger row contains usage, cost, and dispatch ids. Nothing else.

Are we subject to Icelandic or Swiss law as a customer?

No. You are a customer of a Swiss legal entity that operates infrastructure in Iceland. Your contractual relationship and dispute jurisdiction are spelled out in the master services agreement (drafted under Swiss law). Your data never leaves the enclave, regardless of the customer's domicile.

What happens if you go out of business?

The dispatcher source will be MIT and published in 2026. Customers of the confidential cloud receive a contractual right-to-bench-image so the running enclave configuration can be re-stood-up by a successor party of the customer's choosing on equivalent hardware.

What if you're personally subpoenaed by a US court?

We are personally exposed to that risk. The Swiss Stiftung is being structured (incorporation in progress) to absorb it without compromising customer data. Article 271 of the Swiss Criminal Code will make unauthorized assistance with foreign discovery a personal crime against the directors once the entity is registered. That's the structural lever. If the directors are compelled to comply abroad, the architectural design (§3 of the paper) means there's nothing produceable on the Swiss side anyway.

Does the operator see metadata even if not contents?

Yes. Billing telemetry includes token counts and dispatch timestamps. The threat-model page enumerates exactly what metadata is retained and for how long.

design partner program

Apply for the first cohort.

We’re onboarding a small number of design-partner firms ahead of the cloud public beta. Each partner gets bench access, a co-authored threat-model addendum naming their use-case, and a price lock through GA.

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