FAQ
Questions
- How's Continuum different from other GenAI APIs?
- Can you see my prompts and the corresponding replies?
- You run your service on Microsoft Azure. Can't they see my data?
- You use the OpenAI API standard. Is any data transferred to OpenAI?
How's Continuum different to other GenAI APIs?
In contrast to other GenAI APIs, Continuum offers dependable privacy and security properties. Your prompts and replies always stay hidden from any third party, even from us, Edgeless Systems.
With other GenAI APIs, data can be accessed by third parties at various points when interacting with the AI. For example:
- Infrastructure providers like Microsoft or AWS have privileged access and control over the underlying hardware and system software. This means they can potentially access your prompts and replies.
- GenAI service providers like OpenAI also have the ability to access your data.
With Continuum, your prompts and replies remain confidential. By design, neither Microsoft Azure as the infrastructure provider, nor Edgeless Systems as your service provider can access or leak your prompts or replies.
To ensure this, Continuum leverages confidential computing, a cutting-edge technology that provides runtime encryption and protection for data. Continuum applies confidential computing end-to-end and make this verifiable from the outside. With the help of confidential computing-based remote attestation, it's possible to verify the integrity and authenticity of the software of the entire Continuum software stack.
This makes Continuum fundamentally different from other GenAI providers. You fully own your prompts and replies.
Feel free to dive deeper into Continuum's security properties.
Can you see any prompts or replies?
No. By leveraging confidential computing and providing hardware-enforced end-to-end encryption, Continuum ensures that Edgeless Systems can't access your prompts or replies.
You run your service on Microsoft Azure. Can't they see our data?
This is important to us: By design, our infrastructure provider can't access any of your prompts or responses.
Continuum is based on confidential computing, and this is where it truly shines. Thanks to its strong, hardware-enforced confidentiality, even the infrastructure provider that controls the hardware and system software can't access any of your data.
You use OpenAI's API standard. Is any data transferred to OpenAI?
Continuum doesn't use any OpenAI services. Continuum only adheres to the common OpenAI interface definitions (prompt and response format) to provide a nice development experience and ensure easy code portability.