Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
NVIDIA Blog · NVIDIA · 2026-07-27
NVIDIA and dozens of technology companies including Microsoft, IBM, and Hugging Face announce the Open Secure AI Alliance, arguing that open-weight AI models are essential cybersecurity defensive tools and calling on policymakers to reject blanket restrictions on open frontier AI systems.
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Claims
- The Open Secure AI Alliance counts NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Palantir, Red Hat, and dozens of other companies as inaugural partners.
- During the Hugging Face security intrusion, closed AI tools blocked forensic analysis, forcing defenders to run the open-weight GLM 5.2 model on their own infrastructure to analyze over 17,000 actions and contain the breach.
- Real AI safety and security depends on the full agent stack — including identity, permissions, harnesses, guardrails, and logs — not merely on whether model weights are open or closed.
- NVIDIA is contributing the open source NOOA (Object-Oriented Agent) project to make agent behavior easier to test, trace, audit, and govern.
- Blanket restrictions on open frontier AI systems would weaken defensive capacity and risk concentrating power and vulnerability in a small number of closed providers.
Key quotes
When defenders cannot inspect, adapt and run advanced AI on their own infrastructure, their ability to respond is constrained at exactly the moment speed matters most.
The right response is not to deny defenders access to capable open systems. It is to pair openness with strong safeguards, clear rules against malicious misuse, rigorous evaluation and rapid remediation.
Just as open source created a shared foundation for software, the United States and its partners now face a choice in AI security: whether the defenses that protect our infrastructure will sit inside a few opaque systems or be built on open models, harnesses and tools that any defender can study, adapt and deploy.