E546 Chester Leung, Co-Founder and Head of AI Platform at Opaque Systems

Today's guest is Chester Leung, Co-Founder and Head of AI Platform at Opaque Systems. Founded in 2021, Opaque is the confidential AI platform unlocking sensitive data to securely accelerate AI into production. Created by world-renowned researchers at the Berkeley RISELab, Opaque’s user-friendly platform empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general purpose AI workloads on encrypted data.

Opaque Systems supports a world where the accelerated adoption of AI transforms businesses and organizations, unlocking the immense value of their sensitive data without sacrificing privacy or sovereignty. Opaque empowers organizations and people to harness AI confidently and securely, driving human progress while maintaining absolute data privacy and sovereignty.

In this episode, Chester talks about:

How Opaque started from Berkeley research on secure collaborative learning,

Opaque’s focus on accelerating AI adoption by solving data privacy challenges,

Using confidential computing to ensure private, secure AI applications,

The team’s focus on distributed systems, security and machine learning,

Opaque’s dedication to enhancing data governance and supporting agentic AI,

Empowering enterprises to leverage data through collaboration with Opaque