Lunal Becomes Confidential AI

Confidential AI is the most important infrastructure problem of today.

Exposing our data and identity to the tech giants was bad. The same is happening with the frontier labs in fast forward mode. As AI infiltrates every workflow, confidentiality will necessarily become table stakes.

Yet the labs want this too. They want to protect their model weights. Privacy is essential from all perspectives.

Confidential computing is hitting an inflection point. It is crossing the chasm from theory and research into production. But this problem is not yet solved.

That's why today we decided to rename ourselves Confidential AI.

This new name describes exactly what gets the team out of bed every day.

Lunal as a name has worked for us until now: an engineering team solely focused on shipping by daylight or moonlight. Until a few weeks ago, our domain lunal.dev just pointed to our Github page. A signal that we cut out the fluff and focus on the load-bearing work.

The name has changed but the approach hasn't. Same team, same roadmap, same hellbent desire to ship high-quality, privacy-preserving products. We've shipped confidential inference, training, fine-tuning, and agentic flows. And now, finally, we got round to shipping a new name and a website.

We are Confidential AI and we do Confidential AI.

If you're building with AI and care about who sees your data or model weights, we should talk.