People now bring their most consequential questions to AI: a worrying symptom, a tax decision, a legal bind, the thing they would never say out loud. But the assistants they ask were built to remember. Messages get tied to an account, logged, and made eligible to train the next model. It is a quiet b****** users never agreed to: get help, but hand over the most sensitive details of your life to do it.
Today, OpenGradient launched OpenGradient Chat, a generative AI assistant built on the opposite premise: the questions that matter most are exactly the ones you should be able to ask without attaching your name to them. Finally, an AI you can tell anything.
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Privacy you can verify
Most assistants ask you to trust a privacy policy, a written promise to handle your data well. OpenGradient Chat replaces the promise with proof.
Privacy is enforced in the architecture, in three layers:
- Encrypted on your device. Messages are encrypted locally before they leave the browser, with keys that live only on your device.
- Routed through an Oblivious HTTP relay. The relay sees your IP but only ciphertext; the downstream gateway sees plaintext but never your IP. No single party can correlate identity with content.
- Processed inside a TEE-isolated gateway. Prompts are decrypted only inside a trusted execution environment with remote attestation. Memory is sealed, and the operator can’t read or log it.
Because the enclave is attested, you can verify these guarantees yourself rather than take OpenGradient’s word for them. OpenGradient never holds a message it could trace back to you. It is the same verifiable foundation as OpenGradient’s core network, now in an everyday assistant.
Every frontier model, in one app
Underneath the privacy, it is a full assistant. A single app reaches the frontier models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and ByteDance Seed, to begin with) and lets you switch mid-conversation or run two side by side. It also includes live web search, uncensored image generation, and file uploads for PDFs, documents, code, and images. Anyone who signs up receives 1,000 free credits.
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