Verifiable Compute Foundation

The Verifiable Compute Foundation (VCF) is an independent nonprofit working on techniques for verifying AI development and use while protecting models, data and trade secrets S-0091. It reports providing a free AI-verification research cluster in the Bay Area, operated on its behalf by Lucid Computing S-0091:

• VCF reports two H100 nodes operational through a beta launch S-0091. It lists NVIDIA H200, NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra and AMD Instinct MI355X hardware as scheduled additions S-0091.
• VCF lists bare-metal and confidential-computing access, with physical instrumentation including optical fibre taps, side-channel probes, software-defined radios and network analysers S-0091. It invites applications from academic labs, nonprofits, startups, industry and government teams working on AI verification S-0091.
• According to Lucid, the cluster is "free for qualifying safety & verification research", the foundation allocates it through a fair-share process, and Lucid "takes no part in allocation decisions" S-1702 S-1406.
• Lucid's cluster page lists the research areas as workload forensics from power and emission signatures, probing of TEEs and confidential computing, network observation, firmware and root-of-trust inspection, and in-path hardware such as DPUs and FPGAs S-1702. These areas bear on workload classification from side channels, TEE remote attestation and network taps.