Eternal Unveils Privacy-Focused AI Platform Dark, Eyes Global Launch In 2026

Zomato and Blinkit's parent company, Eternal, has introduced Dark, a privacy-focused AI platform that aims to launch globally in 2026. Founder Deepinder Goyal revealed that the platform caters to power users such as founders, researchers, scientists, enterprises, and governments who prioritize keeping their conversations and research private.

Dark has been under internal testing for a few months, and Goyal credits its privacy features for encouraging him to share more information and ask questions he would typically avoid asking other AI assistants.

Unlike constructing a model from the ground up, Dark relies on fine-tuned frontier open-weight models running on Eternal's infrastructure. This method entails adapting existing models whose trained parameters are accessible for developers to utilize and customize. Goyal mentioned that Dark incorporates end-to-end encryption along with an encrypted memory management layer, which users control, to maintain context across sessions. This setup ensures that Eternal cannot eavesdrop on conversations, even if compelled to do so.

Goyal positioned Dark to address concerns that users' interactions with mainstream AI assistants might be stored or accessed by others, thereby deterring them from disclosing sensitive information. He argued that disabling the use of conversations for model training does not, in itself, tackle issues related to data retention, legal holds, human reviews, or third-party logging. (This story will be updated soon) The announcement of Eternal's privacy-focused AI platform, Dark, appeared first on Inc42 Media.