blindai VS whatlang-rs

We are working on an open-source project, BlindAI (https://github.com/mithril-security/blindai) to answer exactly that: privacy when sending data to remote AI models.

BlindAI (https://github.com/mithril-security/blindai) is an open-source confidential AI deployment. By using secure enclaves (Intel SGX for now, soon AMD SEV and Nvidia Confidential Computing), we provide end-to-end protection for users’ data, even when sending it to the Cloud for AI inference. You can see the gains of BlindAI on the scheme below:

Good thing with enclave is that the hardware protection enable us to use regular AES to secure communication with the enclave, which means no ciphertext expansion and lightweight client side. We do not need to have a complicated client side, we just need a slightly modified TLS client with additional security checks, like remote attestation but you can have a look on our client side it's light (https://github.com/mithril-security/blindai/tree/master/client).

I am glad to introduce BlindAI, an AI deployment solution, leveraging secure enclaves, to make remotely hosted AI models privacy friendly. We leverage the tract project as our inference engine to serve AI models in ONNX format inside an enclave. We also use the Rust SGX SDK to use Rust for our secure enclave for AI.

How does it compare to whatlang?

WhatLang is a Python library for detecting the language of a text. It is based on the WhatLang Rust library.

I started working on whatlang project (https://github.com/greyblake/whatlang-rs). In 2017 I started going to Rust interviews. At that moment there were only 3 companies in Berlin that were offering Rust jobs (as far as I know): Parity, Mozilla, 1aim. I had interview with all of them and did not pass. I had classical Ruby/web background, and at that moment Rust was seen as alternative to C++, so many would expect me to know C++ well (but it was not really the case). I did continue working on my open source projects and writing blog posts from time to time. Year 2020 was very different. I was like rust turned from underdog to mainstream. I felt like Rust job openings tripled. Head hunters started writing me on LinkedIn, waw! I got contacted by big CryptoExchange, because they wanted to use my library for technical analysis. Sounds like a dream! Eventually, I find a job at Impero.com, thanks to this subreddit. They posted a job description and I send them my CV. Soon I got hired. It's a remote job, but at that moment it did not make a difference, because of the pandemic.

CHANGELOG: https://github.com/greyblake/whatlang-rs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Regarding Chinese / Japanese, if I got it correctly Japanese may include Katakana, Hiragana and Mandarin, while Chinese includes only Mandarin characters (again I can be wrong here).