NIOBIUM has unveiled The Fog, a private cloud infrastructure platform designed to run applications and AI workloads while data remains encrypted at all times, with decryption keys kept solely by the data owner and Niobium having no access to customer data during computation, according to Dark Reading.
The Fog is currently in private beta, with a public launch targeted for late Q2 2026 and is built on fully homomorphic encryption to enable encrypted compute across regulated data sets and private AI and ML applications. It includes a self-service portal to provision servers and hardware, deploy FHE applications, and manage workloads, and will ship with pre-built FHE applications such as Encrypted Semantic Search (Secure RAG), Federated Learning, and Machine Learning Classification for network intrusion detection.
The platform runs on the mistic Core FPGA accelerator, promising up to 2x faster FHE performance than GPUs or accelerators on the market, and Niobium is developing an ASIC in collaboration with SEMIFIVE and Samsung Foundry for higher performance. Rob Sherrard has been appointed Head of Cloud to lead the buildout.