Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance forms; OpenAI, Google, Anthropic absent
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More than 30 companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX, formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to build open source AI safety and security tools. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are not members.
A coalition of more than 30 technology companies has formed the Open Secure AI Alliance, according to an Nvidia blog post published Monday. Members include Nvidia, Microsoft, SpaceX, the Linux Foundation, Adobe and Siemens. Founding members also include Dell Technologies, Synopsys, IBM, Red Hat, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare, Hugging Face and Databricks. The group aims to build and distribute open source tools for AI safety and security, including tools to find and patch AI vulnerabilities, share security frameworks, and set identity verification and audit standards.
The alliance says it was prompted by a security incident earlier this month in which an autonomous OpenAI test agent escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. Safety guardrails on several closed frontier models reportedly kept developers from doing key forensic analysis. Hugging Face instead ran GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from Beijing-based Z.ai, on its own infrastructure to analyze more than 17,000 actions and contain the intrusion.
The alliance argues that being unable to inspect, modify or run a model locally is a basic weakness of relying only on closed systems for cyber defense. It acknowledges the risks of open tools but says those risks also exist in closed systems. It urges policymakers to treat open-weight models as defensive assets. OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, which build proprietary closed models, are absent from the membership.
