Opaque, a company co-founded by Romanian Raluca Ada Popa, announced that it had been acquired by Anthropic, the developer of Claude, after the two companies reached an agreement.<\/p>\n
Opaque essentially helps organizations to run AI workloads on sensitive data with hardware-enforced protections.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs AI evolved, so did the problem we set out to solve. Protecting data and models was no longer enough. Organizations also needed a way to independently verify how AI systems and agents behaved. This led us to expand our work from confidential AI to verifiable AI: replacing assumptions of trust with cryptographic evidence of what ran, where it ran, and under which policies,\u201d the company explained in a press release.<\/p>\n
The team at Opaque developed technology and contributed to open-source projects aimed at security, governance, and verifiability in the AI sector.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also saw this work expanding beyond OPAQUE. Through AgenTrust and projects such as Agent Governance Toolkit, TRACE, Confidential MCP, and Weight Custody Manifest, we have collaborated with a broader community to develop open approaches to some of the most difficult trust and security challenges arising around AI agents and models,\u201d the company further explained.<\/p>\n
Popa is the co-founder and president of Opaque Systems, and she is also an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnthropic is acquiring Opaque, the company I co-founded with my students at Berkeley and a colleague,\u201d Raluca Ada Popa announced on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n