Anthropic Licenses OPAQUE Technology and Hires Team Members

Oct 15, 2026
Anthropic will license OPAQUE technology and hire some of its employees under an agreement with undisclosed terms.

Anthropic will license technology from OPAQUE and hire some of its team, according to Constellation Research. Financial terms were not disclosed.

OPAQUE develops confidential computing technology for running AI workloads with sensitive data. The company has worked with Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft and Google, and recently developed standards for sovereign AI and deployments on premises.

OPAQUE raised a $24 million Series B round at a valuation of about $300 million before the agreement. CEO Aaron Fulkerson confirmed the agreement in a post.

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