# Apple Private Cloud Compute Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Private Cloud Compute (PCC) is Apple's groundbreaking cloud intelligence system: It extends device-level security to the cloud for advanced AI processing, ensuring user data is never stored or accessible to Apple.

PCC is the secure, cloud-based infrastructure powering computationally intensive features within Apple Intelligence (e.g., complex generative models). The system runs on custom Apple silicon server nodes, which incorporate hardware security features like the Secure Enclave, mirroring the protection of iPhone and Mac devices. PCC guarantees stateless computation: User data is processed ephemerally, solely for the inference request, and immediately deleted, with no logging or retention. This architecture eliminates privileged runtime access for Apple staff and offers verifiable transparency, allowing researchers to inspect the security claims via a Virtual Research Environment (VRE).

- Official technology site: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Secure AI Inference with Hardware Attestation](https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_14eplt0Cd3w)

I'll demonstrate a working prototype of running an open-source LLM inside an AWS Nitro Enclave, showing how to achieve verifiable privacy for AI inference. The live demo will show: -Real-time hardware attestation of the Nitro Enclave -A working chat interface connecting to the enclave -(potentially) Privacy-preserving aggregated analytics using DAP (Distributed Aggregation Protocol), which is a multiparty computation protocol

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - San Francisco - November 2024 Meetup - Securing Agentic Systems — 2024-11-22 — San Francisco
- Public talk page: https://sf.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_14eplt0Cd3w

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