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confidential-computing Unleashing Confidential AI: Cocos v0.8.0 and Prism v0.6.0 Released

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Unleashing Confidential AI: Cocos v0.8.0 and Prism v0.6.0 Released

The confidential computing landscape continues to evolve with two major releases that strengthen the ecosystem for secure, privacy-preserving AI: Cocos AI v0.8.0 and Prism v0.6.0. Together, they represent a powerful advancement in enabling organizations to build trustworthy, collaborative AI systems without compromising data privacy.

What is Cocos AI?

Cocos AI (Confidential Computing System for AI) is a comprehensive software platform engineered for confidential and privacy-preserving AI and machine learning. At its foundation, Cocos uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)—specialized hardware enclaves that isolate data and code from the entire system, providing protection even from privileged software.

Cocos Architecture

The platform enables:

  • Model training and inference on sensitive data without ever exposing that data
  • Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) for collaborative analysis across different data sources
  • Hardware attestation to verify the integrity and trustworthiness of computations
  • End-to-end encrypted communication through aTLS (attestation TLS)

Introducing Prism: The Gateway to Enterprise Confidential AI

While Cocos AI provides the core confidential computing infrastructure, Prism is the user-friendly, enterprise-grade platform layer that makes Cocos accessible to organizations and teams. Prism is a web-based SaaS that sits on top of Cocos, adding essential enterprise capabilities:

Prism Dashboard

What Prism Brings to the Table

1. User & Workspace Management

  • Create and manage users across workspaces (consortiums)
  • Fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Multi-tenant isolation for collaborative environments

2. Policy Management

  • Define access control policies between users, workspaces, and computations
  • Manage asset access and computational workflows
  • Enforce data governance rules seamlessly

3. Asset Management

  • Organize and search datasets and algorithms
  • Track asset usage across computations
  • Maintain metadata and audit trails

Asset Management Dashboard

4. Computation Orchestration

  • Submit and monitor confidential computations
  • View computation results with audit logs
  • Track computation policies and resource allocation

5. Billing & Subscription Management

  • Manage subscription tiers and payment information
  • Track resource usage and costs
  • Email notifications for important events

6. Secure Infrastructure

  • Leverage TEE-based secure VM provisioning
  • End-to-end encryption throughout the workflow
  • Comprehensive logging and monitoring

Cocos v0.8.0: Enhanced Security and Performance

Cocos v0.8.0 brings significant improvements focused on attestation, security, and architecture refinement—critical for enterprises demanding the highest security standards.

Key Highlights

Enhanced Attestation Policy

  • Improved CLI attestation policy tools for better developer experience
  • Updated configurations for AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX platforms
  • Added reported TCB (Trusted Computing Base) support for more comprehensive security validation
  • SEV version bump to 7.0.0 for latest security standards

SEV-SNP Threat Model

Performance Innovations

  • VCEK Caching on aTLS Verification: Significantly improves performance by caching VCEK (Versioned Chip Endorsement Key) certificates during attestation TLS verification
  • Optimized certificate handling and verification workflows
  • Enhanced HTTP and gRPC client reusability

Architecture Enhancements

  • Refactored attestation handling: AttestationResult renamed to AzureAttestationToken for clarity
  • New CertificateProvider interface for flexible certificate handling
  • Improved aTLS and gRPC server architecture
  • Better code reusability across components

Security Updates

  • Major dependency upgrades (gRPC 1.74.2 → 1.75.0, Docker SDK 28.3.2 → 28.5.0)
  • Updated SMQ library to 0.18.1 with security patches
  • Enhanced certificate library integration

Patch Updates

Recent patch releases (v0.8.1 and v0.8.2) have focused on platform stability, security patches for cryptography libraries, and adding advanced vTPM features to enhance SEV-SNP reporting.

Prism v0.6.0: Usability and Discovery

Prism v0.6.0 focuses on user experience, asset discovery, and operational improvements—making the platform more accessible and intuitive.

What’s New

Advanced Search & Discovery

  • Comprehensive Asset Search: New asset search functionality with full UI and backend support
  • Find and manage algorithms, datasets, and computational resources effortlessly
  • Enhanced search performance and filtering options

User Management Enhancements

  • Subscription Management Button: Dedicated UI for easier subscription control access
  • Email Notifications: Introduced notifications for email events, keeping users informed of critical updates
  • Better visibility into account and subscription status

🔧 Improvements

UI/UX Refinements We’ve polished the interface with cleaner styling for asset templates, improved content navigation, and enhanced validation messages to provide better guidance.

Asset View Interface

Why These Releases Matter

For Data Scientists & Researchers

  • Cocos: Attestable proof that their sensitive algorithms and data are executed in protected enclaves
  • Prism: Intuitive interface to run confidential computations without infrastructure complexity

For Enterprises & Organizations

  • Cocos: Hardware-validated security guarantees for regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.)
  • Prism: Enterprise features like billing, user management, and audit logs for governance

For Security Teams

  • Cocos: Advanced attestation validation, updated security policies, and dependency management
  • Prism: Fine-grained access control, comprehensive logging, and policy enforcement

The Collaborative AI Future

Together, Cocos and Prism enable a new paradigm for AI:

Collaborative AI Architecture

Healthcare: Train diagnostic AI models on patient data from multiple hospitals without sharing raw data.

Finance: Perform collaborative fraud detection across institutions while maintaining data privacy.

Government: Enable multi-agency analysis on sensitive information without centralized data collection.

Research: Combine datasets from different organizations for breakthroughs while maintaining strict confidentiality.

Getting Started

Explore Cocos AI

Visit the Cocos GitHub repository to deploy and integrate confidential computing into your infrastructure.

Experience Prism

Access Prism’s web interface to manage users, policies, and computations in a secure, user-friendly environment.

What’s Next?

Both projects continue to evolve. The roadmap includes:

  • Enhanced multi-party computation capabilities
  • Support for additional TEE technologies
  • Expanded analytics and reporting features
  • Improved developer tooling and SDKs

Stay tuned for more innovations in the confidential computing space!

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