From Financialexpress · Anees Hussain · · 1m 10s
Eternal launches privacy-focused AI assistant Dark.ai
Eternal's Dark.ai offers end-to-end encrypted AI for users seeking secure interactions, launching globally by 2026.
In brief
Eternal's Dark.ai offers end-to-end encrypted AI for users seeking secure interactions, launching globally by 2026. Eternal's Dark.ai, a privacy-first AI assistant with end-to-end encryption, will launch globally by 2026 for power users. Originally reported by Financialexpress.
Eternal unveils Dark.ai
Eternal, parent of Zomato and Blinkit, is building a privacy-focused AI assistant called Dark.ai for users wary of sharing sensitive information with mainstream AI platforms.
Dark.ai launch timeline
Dark.ai will launch globally by 2026 after being tested internally for months, targeting power users including founders and researchers.
Dark.ai features

Dark.ai uses fine-tuned frontier open-weight models hosted on Eternal's infrastructure with end-to-end encryption that prevents reading user conversations even if forced to.
Privacy concerns
Goyal argued that mainstream AI companies lack transparency about data retention and third-party logging, leading users to self-censor.
Dark.ai's purpose
Dark.ai aims to provide truthful answers without pleasing users, trained to give the best quality responses from any large language model.
Dark.ai's context
Eternal has been using Dark.ai internally for months and will reveal benchmarks soon, with no disclosed pricing or investment details.
The bottom line
Eternal's Dark.ai, a privacy-first AI assistant with end-to-end encryption, will launch globally by 2026 for power users.



