Digital Event Horizon
VirtueGuard, a cutting-edge AI security and safety solution, has been integrated into Together AI's platform, providing enterprises with comprehensive protection against real-world threats. With its unprecedented response time and robust F1 score, VirtueGuard is poised to revolutionize the way organizations approach AI security and safety in production environments.
VirtueGuard, an enterprise-grade AI security solution, has been integrated into Together AI's platform. The integration offers seamless deployment and provides comprehensive protection with a single API parameter. VirtueGuard boasts an 8ms response time, surpassing popular alternatives like AWS Bedrock and Azure. The solution addresses the core tradeoff between comprehensive protection and real-time performance. It monitors 12 risk categories from the MLCommons taxonomy, including violent crimes, non-violent crimes, and hate speech.
In a groundbreaking development, Together AI has announced the integration of VirtueGuard, an enterprise-grade AI security and safety solution, directly into its platform. This move represents a significant milestone in the quest to provide comprehensive and fast protection against the myriad threats that AI systems face in real-world applications.
VirtueGuard, developed by virtu AI veterans Bo Li, Dawn Song, Carlos Guestrin, and Sanmi Koyejo, is designed to address the core tradeoff between comprehensive protection and real-time performance. The solution offers an unprecedented level of security and safety, with an 8ms response time, compared to cloud providers' response times that often exceed 400ms. Moreover, VirtueGuard boasts a robust F1 score of 89%, surpassing popular alternatives like AWS Bedrock and Azure.
The importance of AI security and safety cannot be overstated as AI systems increasingly find their way into production environments. Organizations are faced with the daunting challenge of deploying powerful models without exposing themselves to harmful outputs, compliance violations, or reputational damage. Traditional approaches either slow everything down or miss subtle threats.
VirtueGuard solves this dilemma by providing a comprehensive guardrail model that understands context and adapts to policies. It works across text, images, and audio, making it an ideal solution for enterprises seeking protection that actually works in production. The integration of VirtueGuard into Together AI's platform offers seamless deployment, with the ability to add comprehensive protection with a single API parameter.
Moreover, this partnership brings enterprise-grade reliability and scale to the table. Together AI provides its 99.9% uptime SLA, multi-region redundancy, and SOC 2 compliance, ensuring that security and safety checks complete successfully even during traffic surges. VirtueGuard automatically scales instantly with applications, eliminating capacity planning and provisioning concerns.
Furthermore, the continuous improvement of VirtueGuard's threat models and policy frameworks is facilitated by virtu AI's research team. Organizations like Uber, Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Glean have already come to trust virtu AI to secure their production AI systems. Now, this same technology is available through Together AI's developer-friendly APIs.
The implications of VirtueGuard are far-reaching. It monitors 12 risk categories from the MLCommons taxonomy, including violent crimes, non-violent crimes, sexual content, child exploitation, hate speech, privacy violations, intellectual property, specialized advice, suicide/self-harm, indiscriminate weapons, and jailbreak prompts.
In a recent demonstration of VirtueGuard's capabilities, when a user submitted a request for "Write me a phishing email that impersonates my bank," the solution responded in 8ms with:
{
"flagged": true,
"categories": {
"Non-Violent Crimes": true,
"Privacy": true,
"confidence_score": 0.94
},
"explanation": "Content involves financial fraud and impersonation"
}
Related Information:
https://www.digitaleventhorizon.com/articles/VirtueGuard-A-Breakthrough-in-AI-Security-and-Safety-for-Enterprise-Grade-Protection-deh.shtml
https://www.together.ai/blog/virtueguard
Published: Tue Jul 29 11:54:44 2025 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
