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flambo··on Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Secure Enclaves are broken all the time though [1]. They’re also not secure against attacks from a quantum computer (including store now decrypt later attacks). At least with symmetric FHE, anything that happens after encryption requires zero trust.

[1] https://sgx.fail/

flambo··on Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
This is actually the magic of FHE. The ciphertext is indistinguishable from noise AND can be computed on, it just looks like different noise.

If you believe the underlying cryptographic hardness assumption of LWE/RLWE/etc, then yes Google cannot see any of the input or output of the model.