OPAQUE Systems, a leader in Confidential AI, announced its membership in AGNTCY, an open-source collective founded by Outshift by Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo, at the 3rd Annual Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco. This partnership aims to address trust and privacy challenges in multi-agent AI workflows, enabling secure, scalable collaboration for the Internet of Agents.
Announcement Date: June 17, 2024, at the Confidential Computing Summit.
Partnership Objective: Develop secure infrastructure for AI agent collaboration, ensuring data privacy and integrity.
OPAQUE’s Role: Leverages its Confidential AI Platform to provide verifiable privacy and data sovereignty.
AGNTCY’s Mission: Builds open-source components for the Internet of Agents, fostering interoperability.
Impact: Enhances trust in enterprise AI, supporting industries like finance, healthcare, and government.
Additional Context: OPAQUE launched Confidential Agents for RAG workflows on the same day.
AGNTCY unites technologists to create infrastructure for agentic AI systems, which autonomously collaborate across organizational boundaries. As multi-agent workflows transform enterprise AI, trust, confidentiality, and data sovereignty are critical to prevent risks like data leaks or unauthorized access. OPAQUE Systems, born from UC Berkeley’s RISELab, brings expertise in confidential computing, cryptography, and secure multi-party collaboration, making it a key contributor to AGNTCY’s vision.
Vijoy Pandey, GM and SVP at Outshift by Cisco, stated, “That’s why we’re welcoming OPAQUE as a member in AGNTCY. They help solve the trust infrastructure problem we’re all going to hit as we build the Internet of Agents together.” Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of OPAQUE, added, “Joining AGNTCY aligns with OPAQUE’s mission to ensure that confidential AI enables secure agent collaboration that accelerates innovation while maintaining privacy.”
OPAQUE’s platform, available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace since April 2025, enables enterprises to process sensitive data fully encrypted from ingestion to inference. Key features include:
End-to-End Encryption: Protects data and models during multi-agent workflows.
Turnkey RAG Workflows: Integrates with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails and LangChain’s LangGraph for secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Zero-Trust Security: Verifiable runtime guarantees for compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and PCI.
Multi-Agent Support: Facilitates autonomous escalation, delegation, and adaptation in secure environments.
Clients like ServiceNow, Encore Capital, and the European Union use OPAQUE to unlock sensitive data securely.
AGNTCY addresses the need for secure agent communication standards, competing with protocols like Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A). By fostering open-source collaboration, AGNTCY ensures interoperability, avoiding vendor lock-in. OPAQUE’s expertise strengthens AGNTCY’s ability to deliver:
Verifiable Privacy: Prevents unauthorized data access in multi-agent systems.
Data Sovereignty: Ensures compliance with regional regulations.
Integrity Guarantees: Protects against agent manipulation or prompt injection.
The agentic AI market, valued at $2 billion in 2024, is projected to grow at a 40% CAGR through 2030, driven by enterprise adoption in finance, healthcare, and defense. However, 78% of CISOs report AI-powered threats impacting enterprises, highlighting risks like prompt injection and agent corruption. OPAQUE’s partnership with AGNTCY aligns with the cautious adoption of agentic AI, with 60% of cybersecurity professionals noting productivity gains but emphasizing security needs.
Posts on X reflect enthusiasm for OPAQUE’s contributions, with @AMULETAnalytics calling the RAG launch a “breakthrough” and @sqwareterminal praising its security enhancements.
OPAQUE will deepen its AGNTCY collaboration, contributing to open-source standards and tools. An upcoming AI Confidential Podcast episode on July 1, 2024, featuring Vijoy Pandey, will explore AGNTCY’s trust infrastructure vision. With $53.6 million in funding and partnerships with Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Accenture, OPAQUE’s valuation could reach $200–300M by 2027 if adoption scales. Challenges include integrating with diverse agent frameworks and addressing AI-to-AI attack vectors.
OPAQUE Systems’ membership in AGNTCY, announced on June 17, 2024, marks a pivotal step in building secure, confidential AI collaboration. By combining OPAQUE’s Confidential AI Platform with AGNTCY’s open-source mission, the partnership sets a new standard for trust in the Internet of Agents, driving innovation while safeguarding enterprise data.
OPAQUE is the Confidential AI company. Rooted in groundbreaking research from UC Berkeley's RISELab, OPAQUE Systems delivers a Confidential AI platform that transforms how enterprises handle, analyze, and share sensitive data. Its Confidential Agents platform enables enterprises to run AI on sensitive data—without risk, delay, or compliance tradeoffs. Customers include ServiceNow, the European Union, and other global leaders in AI, fintech, and enterprise infrastructure.
AGNTCY is the open source collective building the foundational technologies and standards for the Internet of Agents—an open, interoperable internet for agent-to-agent collaboration. Founding contributors Cisco, LangChain, and Galileo, AGNTCY develops standards and frameworks that enable AI agents to discover, compose, deploy, and evaluate collaborative workflows across platforms and organizations.
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