$SHAZ PARTNERS WITH VAST DATA ON CONFIDENTIAL AI INFRASTRUCTURE Sharon AI will integrate VAST DataEnclave into its AI Factory platform across Australia and Asia-Pacific, allowing regulated customers to run advanced AI models onshore, including in fully air-gapped environments. The setup keeps both customer data and model weights encrypted during processing, including GPU memory and interconnect traffic, with Nvidia GPUs running in Confidential Compute mode. Customers and model providers keep control of their own encryption keys, while even Sharon AI itself cannot access the underlying data or model weights. The platform is aimed at banks, government agencies and other organizations that cannot send sensitive workloads to conventional cloud-hosted AI services.