ExpressVPN’s new AI offering is ‘private by design’

AI is data-hungry: platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini are built on wild amounts of data, both scraped freely from across the web and collected from people interacting directly with the AI. Today, ExpressVPN says that it’s made an AI product meant to make one part of that equation better for consumers.

ExpressVPN has announced its first AI offering: ExpressAI. In contrast with other AI platforms, ExpressVPN says that ExpressAI doesn’t use any of your inputs to train AI models, keeping your personal data separate from the infrastructure supplying the AI interface.

With ExpressAI, nothing you enter into the interface is used to train models, ExpressVPN says, and none of your data is ever reviewed by humans. ExpressVPN hasn’t created its own AI models for ExpressAI, instead leveraging a total of five different off-the-shelf models for different use cases, supplied by companies like OpenAI and Nvidia.

ExpressAI has been reviewed by German cybersecurity firm Cure53, which says that “the general architecture and technical stack used across the tested scope have been well-conceived,” though it does also raise some security concerns that it says merit “further refinement.” You can read Cure53’s 39-page write-up on its findings here.

ExpressAI is available now as part of a bundle that also includes ExpressVPN, the ExpressKeys password manager, and more. That bundle costs $20 per month when billed monthly, but right now, you can also grab a 28-month subscription in bulk for $209.72 — though time will tell whether consumer AI products are still available at the relatively low prices they are now come 2028.