Eternal readies private AI assistant Dark
By Abha Lohia ·
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- Eternal is the parent of Zomato and Blinkit, and it is now building a separate consumer AI product named Dark
- Dark offers encrypted chats, and the company says it cannot read user conversations even when legally compelled to
- It runs tuned open-weight models on its own servers, and a global launch is planned before the year ends
What happened
- Eternal unveiled Dark, a privacy-first AI assistant.
- Chats are end-to-end encrypted.
- A global launch is targeted this year.
Why it matters
- Users hold back sensitive health, money or research questions on mainstream assistants.
- Dark argues that switching off model training does not remove worries about data storage and legal requests.
The business
- Dark uses fine-tuned open-weight models on Eternal's own infrastructure.
- An encrypted memory layer carries context across sessions under user control.
- It targets founders, researchers, scientists, enterprises and governments.
What happens next
- Global launch of Dark this year.
Words to know
- Open-weight model
- An AI model whose trained parameters are publicly available.
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