Cohere launches Confidential Computing on Model Vault in public beta with NVIDIA H100s on Azure
Cohere announces the public beta of Confidential Computing on Cohere Model Vault, a managed enterprise inference service running on Microsoft Azure with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The service aims to protect data in use during inference, using hardware-backed isolation spanning CPU and GPU. Model Vault encrypts request payloads end-to-end to an attested environment, and customers can cryptographically verify hardware, firmware and software configuration via remote attestation before sending data. The company states that confidential computing does not eliminate all risk or replace application security, compliance, or data-residency controls.
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Cohere announces the public beta of Confidential Computing on Cohere Model Vault, a managed enterprise inference service running on Microsoft Azure with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The service aims to protect data in use during inference, using hardware-backed isolation spanning CPU and GPU. Model Vault encrypts request payloads end-to-end to an attested environment, and customers can cryptographically verify hardware, firmware and software configuration via remote attestation before sending data. The company states that confidential computing does not eliminate all risk or replace application security, compliance, or data-residency controls.
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- Inference runs in a hardware-backed confidential environment spanning CPU and GPU, protecting workload memory from infrastructure software and operators.
- Application payloads are encrypted end-to-end and can only be decrypted inside the attested confidential environment.
- Customer-side software verifies signed attestation evidence against an approved policy and refuses to send requests if it fails.
- The public beta is powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs on Microsoft Azure, accessed through the existing Cohere APIs.
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Cohere says Model Vault now offers confidential computing in public beta, using NVIDIA Confidential Computing on H100 GPUs in Microsoft Azure with remote attestation and end-to-end encryption. Security claims are self-reported.
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Enterprises handling financial, clinical, legal, or proprietary data often cannot use managed AI without trusting the provider's operators. Verifiable hardware-backed protections could widen the set of workloads that can run on managed inference.
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