Eternal’s Deepinder Goyal introduces privacy-focused Dark.ai

Eternal vice chairman Deepinder Goyal has introduced Dark.ai, an artificial intelligence service being developed around private conversations and encrypted user-controlled memory. The company says it expects a global launch in 2026, but has not announced a public release date or pricing. In Eternal’s Q2 FY27 shareholder letter, Goyal said the service had been used internally for several months. He described it as being built for founders, researchers, scientists, businesses and government organisations seeking to use AI while discussing sensitive information. Goyal said Dark would run fine-tuned open-weight models on Eternal’s own infrastructure and use end-to-end encryption. He said the company would not be able to read users’ conversations, even if compelled, and that an encrypted memory system controlled by users would carry context between sessions. Those privacy and security assurances are claims by Goyal and Eternal. The reports describing the service do not provide an independent technical audit or testing to verify how the encryption works or whether the company can access conversations. That distinction is central to evaluating Dark’s main stated feature. Goyal also...