LONDON - August 20, 2026 FLock.io, a privacy-preserving AI solution provider, today announced the launch of its FL Alliance add-on for Open Cluster Management (OCM), an open-source project for managing Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

FL is a technique for collaboratively training a model without sharing the data. It’s valued by the private and public sectors for building custom models on sensitive data without compromising privacy, compliance, or operational control. FL Alliance – FLock.io’s FL platform – will be extensively deployed, delivering enterprise-grade FL to global use cases in a standardised way.

OCM is a community-driven project focused on multicluster and multicloud scenarios for Kubernetes (K8s) apps. Open APIs are evolving within this project for cluster registration, work distribution, dynamic placement of policies and workloads, and much more.

Through this add-on, FL Alliance can be deployed in environments leveraging OCM to coordinate training workflows across distributed Kubernetes clusters. This allows teams to run decentralised model training in a more standardised and observable way, while maintaining flexibility across infrastructure environments.

The add-on is currently under active development. FLock.io is working towards enabling scalable, production-oriented FL deployments by combining its privacy-preserving AI infrastructure with cloud-native orchestration frameworks.

This work reflects a broader shift in federated learning – from primarily research-driven experimentation towards more structured, real-world deployment scenarios. By aligning with open-source infrastructure and enterprise tooling ecosystems, FLock.io aims to lower the barrier for organisations adopting privacy-preserving AI.

Jiahao Sun, CEO of FLock.io, said: “By working contributing to open-source technologies such as Open Cluster Management, we are taking an important step toward making privacy-preserving AI through federated learning more accessible in real-world environments.”

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About FLock.io

FLock.io is an AI research and infrastructure company pioneering enterprise-grade federated learning and distributed AI solutions. Its decentralised federated learning architecture and production-ready platforms (AI Arena, FL Alliance, and FLock API Platform) enable organisations to train and deploy their own custom AI models on local hardware while maintaining full data privacy, model ownership, and regulatory alignment by design.

FLock.io is internationally recognised for its academic research, including the NeurIPS award-winning paper “FLock: Defending Malicious Behaviors in Federated Learning with Blockchain” and sponsors computer science PhD students at the University of Oxford. The company is the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s AI Strategic Partner.