TII Announces Its Founding Role in TRACE, an Open Standard for Verifiable AI, Contributing Cryptography, Post-Quantum and Identity Expertise

Summary

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) announced its participation as a founding collaborator in TRACE, an open standard for verifiable AI, developed with AMD, Intel, and OPAQUE, and supported by Microsoft. TRACE aims to provide portable, hardware-attested evidence of what ran in AI systems, under which policies, and with what data classifications. TII contributes expertise in cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, and identity/authentication to the standard's specification and protocol design. TII will also serve as a reference deployment environment for TRACE, applying it to sovereign AI requirements. Why it matters: This initiative addresses a critical need for independent verification and trust in AI systems, particularly for national-scale sovereign AI deployments in the region.