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Get filing alertsSharon AI partners with VAST Data to bring confidential AI to its AI Factory platform
Filed September 23, 2026 · Period ending September 23, 2026 · ~1 min read
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Sharon AI will offer VAST DataEnclave, a confidential AI capability, on its AI Factory platform across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
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The technology uses hardware-isolated secure runtimes and cryptographic attestation so customer data and model weights stay encrypted during processing.
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Customers and model builders retain independent control of encryption keys via Bring Your Own KMS, with a tamper-proof audit trail.
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CEO James Manning says the collaboration is expected to expand access to frontier AI models previously only available offshore.
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Summary
Sharon AI announced a collaboration with VAST Data to integrate VAST DataEnclave into its AI Factory platform. The technology provides a confidential computing environment where proprietary AI models can run onshore in Australia and Asia-Pacific, with encryption protecting customer data and model weights from the infrastructure operator. This addresses a key barrier for regulated organizations like banks and government agencies that require data sovereignty and cannot use standard cloud services.
The collaboration is expected to expand the range of frontier AI models available to Sharon AI customers for mission-critical work. Customers and model builders each control their own encryption keys, and all attestation events are recorded in a tamper-proof audit trail. The announcement was made via a press release furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to the 8-K, with no additional financial or operational details disclosed.
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SharonAI Holdings issued a press release on September 23, 2026, furnished as Exhibit 99.1.
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On September 23, 2026, SharonAI Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
The company issued a press release on September 23, 2026, and furnished it as Exhibit 99.1 to the 8-K. The content of the press release is not included in the body of the filing, so no specific business details are disclosed here.
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SharonAI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) (“Sharon AI” or the “Company”), a leading Australian Neocloud delivering trusted AI infrastructure, today announced a collaboration with VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, to bring VAST DataEnclave, the new confidential AI capability of the VAST DataEngine, to Sharon AI’s AI Factory platform across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Sharon AI will offer VAST DataEnclave as part of its AI Factory platform, providing a hardware-isolated secure runtime and cryptographic attestation service for running leading AI models onshore. The collaboration targets regulated organizations in Australia and Asia-Pacific, including banks and government agencies, that need to run advanced AI models without data or model weights leaving customer-controlled infrastructure.
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VAST DataEnclave establishes a secure container runtime and attestation service directly within the VAST AI Operating System. Proprietary models execute inside confidential virtual machines built on CPU-level trusted execution environments, with NVIDIA GPUs operating in Confidential Compute mode, so guest memory, GPU memory and interconnect traffic all remain encrypted throughout processing.
The technology is designed to let customers run proprietary AI models onshore in attested environments where neither Sharon AI nor other infrastructure operators can access customer data or model weights during processing. This addresses a longstanding barrier for regulated industries where cloud-hosted services are not an option.
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Sharon AI customers and model builders retain independent control over their respective encryption keys through Bring Your Own KMS integrations, so customer data keys stay within the customer’s trust domain and model keys remain within the model builder’s trust domain at all times.
Customers and model builders each control their own encryption keys, and every attestation event, key release, and enclave lifecycle action is recorded in a tamper-proof, queryable audit trail. Deployments can run connected or fully air-gapped, with VAST and Fortanix enabling on-premises attestation for customers who cannot connect to external services.
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“Our customers across Australia and Asia-Pacific need to run AI at full speed without compromising on data sovereignty, and increasingly they also want access to frontier models that were previously only available offshore. Building on our sovereign data foundation with VAST DataEnclave is expected to let us host those models onshore, inside attested environments where the model owner’s weights and the customer’s data are both protected from everyone, including us. That should give our customers the flexibility to operate on their own terms, backed by sovereignty they can demonstrate, not just declare.”
CEO James Manning frames the collaboration as expanding access to frontier AI models that were previously only available offshore, while protecting both model weights and customer data from the infrastructure operator. The collaboration is expected to significantly expand the number of leading AI models available to Sharon AI customers for mission-critical work.
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