tech
January 18, 2026
Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT
Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.
TL;DR
- Confer is a new AI service focused on user privacy, developed by Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike.
- It aims to prevent data collection, unlike services like ChatGPT, Facebook, and Google.
- Conversations are end-to-end encrypted using the WebAuthn passkey system.
- AI processing is conducted in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) with remote attestation.
- A free tier offers limited messages and chats, while a paid tier provides unlimited access and advanced models for $35/month.