O Foundation

Company profile

O Foundation company profile

O Foundation is a Swiss-based AI research organization focused on building private and confidential AI infrastructure. Its work focuses on building infrastructure and tools that allow AI to operate securely in an AI-native world, with data remaining protected during use. O Foundation emphasizes confidentiality, data sovereignty, and verifiable trust as core principles in the next generation of AI. The independent research lab is working on secure AI infrastructure and software models, such as: - OLLM: a privacy-first confidential AI gateway offering seamless access to hundreds of AI models - O.CAPTAIN: the world’s first AI CEO project - O Foundation is also building a confidential agentic development environment for enterprises in regulated industries O Foundation is founded and led by Ahmad Shadid, a trailblazing entrepreneur and a serial founder at the intersection of Web3, compute infrastructure, and AI, renowned for transforming ambitious ideas into world-changing ecosystems, who also led io.net to a $4.5 billion valuation in just a year. Moreover, O Foundation builds on Ahmad’s legacy through research at the forefront of AI, exploring how technology can advance collective progress and serve the public good.