Morning Edition · Friday, August 28, 2026Published at 2:11 AM EDT · New York

Google DeepMind Runs Model Evaluations Inside an Encrypted Enclave So Neither Side Sees the Other's Data

The pilot tests a Gemini Flash Lite model against confidential benchmarks using Confidential Space, an Nvidia H100 confidential GPU and Intel memory encryption, with the Singapore AI Safety Institute and MLCommons among the partners.

Google DeepMind started a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, in which an external evaluator's test set and the lab's model weights are both processed inside a hardware-isolated environment that neither party can inspect. The stack combin…