ConfidentialMind

🔒 🧠 Finnish AI Startup of the Year! We are happy to announce that we were chosen as the Finnish AI Startup of the Year by AI Finland. 🥳 Thanks goes to all our customers, partners, investors, and of course to our team. We have some exciting partnership and product news in the pipeline. Stay tuned as we keep on shipping. What is ConfidentialMind? We are the generative AI platform for enterprises to: deploy, connect, and secure their generative AI applications and models especially in on-premises and private cloud environments. Esko Vähämäki, Severi Tikkala, Henri Dahl, Raido Linde, Dan Zi, Elina Nenonen, Jaro U., Lucas Björklund, Markku Räsänen

🔒 🧠 We started contributing back to the AI community. We at ConfidentialMind are big believers in open source AI so it makes all the sense for us to contribute back to the community. Our first contribution is an efficiently quantized version of Arcee Supernova Medius SLM by Jaro U. and Edward Kim that we use in some of our AI systems. The model is significantly smaller than its original version, with near similar performance. 2887 downloads in a few days shows that there is interest in models that can be run efficiently on smaller hardware footprint. We make our work fully reproducible to help others innovate faster in this space. Go check out the model here: https://lnkd.in/d3uUT9qE and follow us on Hugging Face 😊

🔒 🧠 We’re excited to announce that our CEO, Markku Räsänen, will be taking the stage at the Tekoäly ja Sote 2024 event. This amazing event, organized by Professio, brings together thought leaders, innovators, and professionals to discuss how AI will revolutionize the social and health care sector and everyday life of people. 🎤 The transformative role of generative AI in healthcare 🗓️ When: 3.12.2024 🕚  Time: 11.00-11.45 AM EET 📍  Where: Keilaranta 1 A, Espoo The three main areas Markku's speech will cover are: 1. Using Health Data with AI 2. Building AI Systems Flexible for the Future 3. The Difference Between AI Models and AI Systems and Why They Matter Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable perspectives and connect with like-minded professionals. Let us know if you’ll be attending and would like to meet with Markku. #tekoälysote #professiosote  #generativeAI

🔒 🧠 Earlier this week, our CEO, Markku Räsänen, took the stage at the Infosys InspireNext customer event in Helsinki. This is the first time that this exclusive customer engagement event is organized in Finland by Infosys. It brought together innovators from diverse sectors such as enterprises, governments, academia, and startups to discuss artificial intelligence. ConfidentialMind was excited to present its work to this amazing audience. Markku’s speech was about deployment of AI systems on top of enterprise data The speech focused on three crucial aspects:  1. The coming AI inference wave 2. Arrival of compound AI systems in enterprise computing environments 3. Getting data ready for LLMs and the coming inference wave    We want to thank Infosys for hosting such an impactful event and everyone who listened and participated in these meaningful discussions. At ConfidentialMind we are proud to collaborate with partners such as Infosys - an expert in all things AI who not only ask 'what next', but help you to build it. Let’s continue driving innovation together!

🔒 🧠 ConfidentialMind is excited to partner with OrionVM | Next-Gen Cloud & GPU Platform. We are joining forces to launch a private generative AI cloud platform for enterprises and nation states worldwide.   This collaboration combines OrionVM’s cutting-edge cloud and AI infrastructure with ConfidentialMind’s generative AI software infrastructure platform, enabling organizations to develop and deploy generative AI applications with ease, cost efficiency, and security. By bringing the AI systems to where enterprises' and nations' data is located, this new private platform addresses crucial data privacy concerns, such as processing confidential data with LLM models. Key Benefits of the Partnership ✓ Enterprise-grade security & compliance ✓ Scalable infrastructure ✓ Customizable templates ✓ Global deployment & low latency ✓ High performance & reliability ✓ Cost-efficient AI inference solutions We’re excited to bring this new platform to the market, enabling enterprises and nation states to unlock the full potential of generative AI regardless of location. Curious about what this means for your enterprise? Reach out or visit our partnership page to explore the possibilities: https://lnkd.in/gXQuy6r3 #press #generativeai #artificialintelligence

🔒 🧠ConfidentialMind will be at SuperCompute 2024! Our cofounder, Severi Tikkala will be giving a talk at SuperCompute 2024! If you are attending the event, catch him live as he will discuss: 🎤 ConfidentialMind and Vultr turn-key solution 📅 Date: Tuesday, Nov. 19th 🕒 Time:  11:30am ET 🗂 Stand No: Vultr booth, 949   This is a fantastic opportunity to explore the partnership between the two companies: how ConfidentialMind’s generative AI platform will run on Vultr’s GPU-powered Kubernetes infrastructure, offering cost-efficient, low-latency, and high-throughput inferencing. "The LLM market is shifting from training to inference. But simple model inference alone is not enough! You need an AI system that simplifies Kubernetes and complex model deployments for enterprise software developers, enabling them to develop and deploy AI applications with ease" says Severi Tikkala. "This is exactly what our partnership offers – a unified AI system that works out of the box, and is secure, scalable, and cost-efficient, designed for enterprises seeking a robust AI infrastructure." If you’re attending the event, we invite you to listen to the talk.

✈️ On the way to SC Conference Series Series! I’m joining the Vultr team at SC24 this week. At Vultr, we provide High-Performance Computing (HPC) with a suite of solutions tailored for compute-intensive workloads—from Vultr Cloud GPUs and Bare Metal to managed Kubernetes clusters. Whether you're training #AI models with GPUs or orchestrating complex workloads with our #Kubernetes Engine, Vultr provides a scalable, cost-effective cloud platform to power innovation across industries. Plus, with global availability and predictable pricing, you can unlock the performance you need—when and where you need it. This year is special as we’ve invited our incredible partners and customers to join us at SC24! Stop by our booth (#949): 🔹 To learn about Vultr. 🔹 For insights into how our solutions are shaping the future of AI, data science, and HPC workloads. 🔹 For great sessions led by our partners and customers, sharing their real-world successes and innovative use cases. We can’t wait to connect with you—let’s talk HPC, AI, and the future of computing! 🚀 AMD ConfidentialMind Console Connect DDN HEAVY.AI NetApp NVIDIA Run:ai SQream #SC24 #HPC #AI #CloudComputing #Vultr

🔒 🧠 ConfidentialMind's first KubeCon North America was a great success. Many discussions around LLM deployment and security. Some recurring themes: 1. Big enterprises doing partial public cloud exits especially in AI inference for data governance and cost reasons 2. Universities investing heavily into on-prem LLM inference 3. Companies looking to license their scalable LLM backend versus doing it themselves Gladly, we hit all these themes with our platform that allows your to deploy, connect, and secure LLMs in enterprise environments. It was a privilege to learn about the businesses and projects of so many organizations that came to chat with us during the convention. Severi Tikkala, Esko Vähämäki #KubeCon #Kubernetes #GenerativeAI

🔒 🧠ConfidentialMind is ready for KubeCon North America 2024 Our three cofounders, Markku Räsänen, Esko Vähämäki and Severi Tikkala are ready to connect with leaders, developers, and innovators at the largest global event for Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies! Where to find us? KubeCon North America 2024 📅 Date: November 13-15 📍 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah 🗂 Stand No: R50, Hall 4 Join us to explore how our generative AI software infrastructure secures your data, simplifies complexity, and reduces costs - enabling enterprise software engineers to develop LLM applications with no prior Kubernetes experience. 👉 Contact us to book a one-on-one session at the event #KubeCon #Kubernetes #GenerativeAI

With Unicorn Night being here in a week’s time, it’s finally time to release the final programme 🦄 We could not be more excited to bring you all this event, swipe to see the details of the programme! Huge thank you to all of our speakers for joining us to make this event as good as possible 💜 🟣 Markus Wartiovaara (Director at Hanken Business Lab) and Ingmar Björkman (Rector at Hanken School of Economics) 🟣 Peter Vesterbacka (Co-founder of Slush and FinEstBayArea ecosystem builder) 🟣 Jyri Engeström (Advisor and Co-founder at Yes VC) Antti Hämmäinen (CEO at Synergi), Ronny Eriksson (Project Manager at Hanken Business Lab) 🟣 Esko Vähämäki (Chief Architect, ConfidentialMind), Sigurdur Arnason (Founder, Overtune), Mona Saurén (Investment Analyst & ESG, Maki.vc), Maurizio Hein (Strategic Projects Team Lead, refurbed) 🟣 Ferdinando Buscema (magician, engineer, and futurist) 🟣 Alina Ianioglo (PhD, Project Manager, Hanken Business Lab) We also want to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors and partners for supporting the event: Cryptic Cargo, CoolHead Brew, GlowStation, Vitamin Well Group, Helsingin kaupunki – Helsingfors stad – City of Helsinki, FinEst Bay Area Development, and Breaking Bread 🤍 Also, if your schedule has changed and aren’t able to attend, please unregister since the event is fully booked and the waitlist is growing 📄 #HankenBusinessLab