At Fortytwo we are beginning a collaboration with Acurast to explore how swarm inference can run on their global network of 100,000+ smartphones, each equipped with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) support. A TEE is a secure area of a device’s processor that isolates code and data during execution, preventing access even from the operating system or other applications. This setup allows us to research private AI operations that may, in some cases, offer stronger isolation than enterprise s...