Accenture makes strategic investment in OPAQUE to advance confidential AI

Accenture (ACN) has made a strategic investment in OPAQUE, a provider of a confidential AI platform that empowers oAccenture has made a strategic investment in OPAQUE, a provider of a confidential AI platform that empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general purpose AI workloads using encrypted data and governed data sharing, with a focus on privacy, sovereignty and compliance. This investment, made through Accenture Ventures, underscores Accenture’s commitment to accelerating AI adoption by helping enterprises securely unlock the full value of sensitive data. “OPAQUE is unlocking the power of data that has been locked away for too long. Enterprises can finally move fast without breaking security” A recent survey by Accenture of 2,300 business leaders found that nearly all 97% said they believe that generative AI is a “game-changing” technology worthy of long-term investment. However, 48% said their organizations lacked enough high-quality data to operationalize their generative AI initiatives. In addition to this investment, Accenture also intends to embed OPAQUE’s confidential AI platform into the Accenture AI Refinery and Accenture’s Trusted Data Services. This combined offering will help enterprises scale AI innovations with confidence, ensuring increased compliance and security without compromising data utility. OPAQUE’s technology removes common barriers to enterprise AI so that enterprises can use sensitive data without exposure risk and run AI workloads with full regulatory compliance and verifiable audit trails.