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The End of Rented Intelligence: Keep Your Business AI To Yourself
Some of you watched Alex Karp on CNBC last week or caught the All-In crew talking about sovereign AI over the weekend. It was a good discussion. I sat there the entire time…
Mark Suman
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Maple for Windows: Encrypted AI, Now on Every Desktop
We've heard you. Today, Maple is officially available for Windows. This completes our platform lineup. Maple now runs on web, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows.…
Featured · News
Meet Maple, the Personal Intelligence Platform
People grow increasingly uneasy with the amount of data they share with big AI apps. You know the feeling. It's that hesitation before you type something you might…
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Organize Maple with Projects, Shared Context, and Pinned Chats
If you've used Maple for a while, your chat history probably looks like mine: a giant scrolling list of every conversation you've ever had with AI. The contract you reviewed…
News
One Year of Private AI: How Maple AI Made Encryption Easy
One year and billions of tokens later, we proved it can be done. We figured out how to give people similar power to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini while letting them keep…
News
Kimi K2 in Maple AI: Open Reasoning That Competes with ChatGPT and Claude
A new form of thinking, reasoning, and coding has come to Maple. Kimi K2 Thinking is now available in Maple’s confidential AI system. Kimi K2 is one of the top open models…
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Maple 2.0 - Now with Live Data
When Maple began less than a year ago, we set out to provide the world with the alternative to ChatGPT. Maple gave you access to high performance AI without sacrificing…
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Speak Freely – Encrypted Voice Arrives in Maple
What if you could talk to AI as naturally as you talk to a colleague—with the same ironclad privacy Maple delivers? Starting today, you can. We're thrilled to announce Maple…
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Maple Proxy: Private, OpenAI-Compatible AI for Your Tools
Maple Proxy gives OpenAI-compatible tools a local endpoint for Maple's private models. Why we built it, where encryption starts, and how to set it up.
Guide
Maple AI Model Guide With Example Prompts
🛑NOTE: This guide is outdated. Do not use info until it has been updated for the latest models. Unlock Specialized AI Without Sacrificing Privacy At Maple, we reject the…
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Meet Max: The Most Powerful Private AI Plan Yet
Just a few months ago, we launched Maple AI into a world where users felt they had no other option but to hand their data over to AI providers. People shouldn’t have to…
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Introducing Maple Teams: Secure AI for Your Organization
At Maple AI, we've always focused on delivering powerful, private AI tools that professionals can trust. Today, we're excited to introduce Maple Teams—a new plan…
Guide
Get Started with a Team in Maple
Team accounts in Maple are a powerful, secure way to use AI with your organization's confidential information. Maple allows any authenticated user to purchase, create, and…
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Unlock New Possibilities: Confidential Document and Image Upload in Maple AI
Maple AI continues to revolutionize how people interact with artificial intelligence—securely and privately. Today, we’re excited to unveil a powerful new capability that…
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DeepSeek R1 Now Available: Enhanced AI for Maple Users
We are pleased to announce the addition of DeepSeek R1 70B as a confidential AI option in Maple AI, now available across web, desktop, and iOS for our Pro and Teams users.…
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Introducing Maple AI for iPhone and iPad: Your Most Personal AI Assistant On-the-Go
We're excited to announce that Maple AI, the world's most private cloud AI assistant, is officially available for iPhone and iPad users around the globe! Privacy First…
Guide
Using AI Safely in Your Therapy Practice
How US therapists can use ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools safely: what HIPAA requires, why encryption does not replace a BAA, and when clients must consent.
Guide
Plan Your Day Like a Pro - Time Management with Personal AI
By the end of this article you will have a one-shot planning technique that organizes your day for you as if you had your own executive assistant. Why Most Planning Systems…
Guide
How to Move Your Personal Finance Data From ChatGPT to Maple — With This Prompt
AI assistants make budgeting, retirement planning, and credit-score repairs easier than ever—if you’re willing to hand them sensitive numbers. Tools such as ChatGPT, Grok…
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Maple AI Desktop Apps Now Available for macOS and Linux
We're thrilled to announce that our Maple AI chat product is now available as a native app for macOS and Linux users! This launch marks a significant milestone in our journey…
Guide
Getting Started with Maple AI: A Step-by-Step Guide
Are you ready to experience the power of confidential and private AI? We’ve got you covered. In this article, we'll walk you through the basics of Maple AI and show you how…
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Introducing the Redesigned Maple AI: Secure, Private, and Building for the Future
Redesigned Maple AI web app reflects our commitment to delivering the future of private AI and dedication to the AI privacy user experience.
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Welcome to the Maple AI Blog: Insights about Private and Confidential AI
We're excited to announce the launch of the Maple AI blog, which will provide insights, news, and tips on how to get the most out of our groundbreaking, confidential AI chat…
Privacy panel
Why AI makes privacy more urgent, and the tradeoffs between secure enclaves, encryption and local models.
AI Is Quietly Changing How You Think
How AI systems learn the way you think, and why that creates a new kind of influence risk.
Bitcoin, AI & the Coming Surveillance State
How AI could power a new surveillance system, and why private, verifiable AI is the way out.
Building Privacy-First AI in an Age of Surveillance
The security risks of centralized AI, from prompt-injection attacks to surveillance, and the private alternative.
Interview · Tangents
Local AI
Keeping up with AI without chasing every release, and why not all privacy is equal.
Podcast · Intelligence Snacks
Personal AI You Can Trust
Why everyday users are starting to care about AI privacy, and building private AI that still feels easy.
Podcast · TFTC
AI Privacy Is the New Bitcoin Privacy
The state of AI agents, why your data is less safe than you think, and open models catching up.
Podcast · PubKey Parlor
Your AI Agent Will Want Bitcoin
How activists can use AI safely under authoritarian governments, and what AI agents mean for bitcoin.
Podcast · What Bitcoin Did
Nobody Is Safe From AI Anymore
Agentic AI, what it means for jobs, the privacy cost of sharing personal data with AI, and bitcoin for agents.
Livestream · Live at PubKey NYC
The Battle for Private AI
Whether private AI is still possible in a surveillance economy, live with the Human Rights Foundation.
Interview · 21 in 21, Presidio Bitcoin
Privacy-First AI
How Maple uses secure enclaves to offer private AI without running models on your own machine.
Podcast · Build With Bitcoin
Privacy First in AI: A Blueprint for Personal Tech
From Apple to Maple: privacy in the AI era, open-source models and bitcoin payments for AI.
Podcast · The Conor Chepenik Podcast
AI Privacy, Open Source Models & Why Your Data Should Be Yours
AI, privacy and bitcoin: Nostr identity, training data, open models and the future of personal devices.
Podcast · Infinite Tech
Open-Source AI That Protects Your Privacy
Lessons from Apple, verifiable open-source AI and how Maple uses secure enclaves and attestation.
Talk · Bitcoin Park
Freedom of Thought in the Age of AI
How AI can shape what people think and remember, and why open systems are easier to trust.
Livestream · Citadel Dispatch
Maple: Private and Secure AI
A full episode on Maple: what it is, how it works and the open models behind it.
Talk · Oslo Freedom Forum
Privacy and AI
Why AI makes freedom of thought a right worth defending, and what private options look like.
Podcast · Ideas from the Edge
Open Source AI and Confidential Compute
Open models, data quality and why who hosts a model matters as much as the model itself.
Podcast · Trust Revolution
Reshaping privacy with secure enclaves
Secure enclaves explained, and why private data deserves the same protection as bitcoin.
Podcast · Opt Out Podcast
Can AI be private?
Whether AI can be private at all, and how OpenSecret and Maple approach the problem.
Podcast · TFTC
AI That Won't Share Your Data
How OpenSecret keeps app data encrypted inside secure enclaves, and how Maple was built on it.
