Family offices weigh hosted AI workspaces against privately run deployments

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A technical lead at a family office faces a choice between a hosted AI workspace and a managed private deployment, which differ mainly in who operates them. ChatGPT Enterprise is configured and governed by the client's own administrators, with processing done in OpenAI's service and business content excluded from training by default. The alternative, Private SuperIntelligence, is built by Mitosis Labs for a single family, ranging from isolated cloud to air-gapped setups, and run by that firm with a named contact. The article argues the key question is where work is processed and who can see it, not only whether a provider trains on data. The piece is written by a co-founder of Mitosis Labs, which is disclosed.

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