On July 31, Protopia AI announced it has received a Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for $1.25 million to demonstrate the utility of its flagship product, Stained Glass Transform (SGT), in enabling the secure use of proprietary code with AI developer tools.
Protopia will enable the Air Force Sustainment Center Software Directorate (AFSC/SW) to use SGT technology to protect code from prompts used for inference with coding LLMs. This SBIR will enable secure use of proprietary codebases with cost-efficient generative AI for software development teams across the Air Force.
Potential applications of the technology include securely unlocking on-premises AI infrastructure to serve coding LLMs, allowing multiple teams within AFSC/SW to securely interact with AI and developer tools without exposing their codebases in plain text on the underlying shared infrastructure. Protopia AI will develop SGT for coding LLMs to give developers and leaders throughout the organization access to cutting-edge productivity tools, speeding their software development and testing efforts in a secure and cost-efficient manner.
“Protopia AI is honored to receive the AFWERX Direct-to-Phase II award and is excited to partner with the AFSC/SW Directorate. This collaboration highlights the critical need for dual-use technologies that enable secure and cost-efficient adoption of generative AI in both mission-critical environments and commercial applications,” said Eiman Ebrahimi, CEO and co-founder of Protopia AI. “As AI-based productivity tools become central to the value generated by LLMs, it is essential to empower software development teams within the Air Force and the Department of Defense to leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) without risking the confidentiality and proprietary nature of their code.”
Source: Protopia AI
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