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On October 21, 2026, Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal announced in a shareholder letter that the company will launch the general-purpose AI assistant Dark.ai and plans to make it available globally within 2026. According to a MediaNama report, Goyal said Dark.ai cannot read user conversations, even if compelled to do so; the assistant uses fine-tuned frontier open-weight models running on its own infrastructure, retains context across sessions through end-to-end encryption and an encrypted memory layer, and targets heavy users such as founders, researchers, scientists, enterprises, and governments. The report also said Eternal has piloted it internally at Zomato for several months, and CFO Akshant Goyal said its pricing may not make everyone willing to use it, but it will be open to all users in the long term. Analytics India Magazine reported the same day on the privacy-first positioning and the 2026 global launch plan. There is currently no qualified factual evidence of further development progress.
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Oct 22
MediaNama
Eternal to launch general-purpose AI assistant Dark.ai, with a focus on privacy protection
Deepinder Goyal, founder of Zomato parent company Eternal, said in an October 21 shareholder letter that the company will launch a general-purpose AI assistant called Dark.ai, and stated that it cannot read users' conversations, even if compelled to do so, with plans for a global launch within 2026. Dark uses fine-tuned frontier open-weight models running on its own infrastructure, retains context across sessions through end-to-end encryption and an encrypted memory layer, and targets heavy users such as founders, researchers, scientists, enterprises and governments. Eternal has been piloting it internally at Zomato for several months; CFO Akshant Goyal said its pricing may not make everyone willing to use it, but that it will be open to all users in the long term, describing it as a zero-to-one bet.
Oct 21
Analytics India Magazine
Deepinder Goyal teases privacy-first AI platform Dark.ai, plans global launch in 2026
Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has teased the privacy-first AI platform Dark.ai, which is planned for a global launch in 2026. The platform runs fine-tuned open-weight models on Eternal's own infrastructure, offering end-to-end encryption and encrypted memory management, so that context can persist across sessions and remain under user control. Goyal says the company cannot read users' conversations, even if compelled to do so. Target users include founders, researchers, enterprises, and government agencies.