NVIDIA, Along with Other Top Companies, is Introducing the Open Secure AI Alliance
NVIDIA and three dozen companies are introducing the Open Secure AI Alliance, a movement to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools to safeguard software and agents in the age of AI.
Founding members include NVIDIA, Adobe, Capital One, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, IBM, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, OpenClaw, Salesforce, SAP, SpaceXAI, among others.
Companies and countries need open frontier defensive tools and techniques so critical industries can build security systems across a multi-vendor ecosystem and avoid single points of failure, said NVIDIA.
That is the mission of the Open Secure AI Alliance: to ensure defenders everywhere have open, frontier tools they can trust and control.
Some argue that open models are inherently less safe because they can be misused for cyberattacks or modified to remove guardrails. Those risks are real, but they do not disappear in closed systems, and simply keeping weights closed does not prevent determined attackers from seeking or exploiting powerful AI.
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.
NVIDIA is contributing open models, model weights, data, and new agent harness research to the Open Secure AI Alliance to speed the development of new cybersecurity tools and techniques.
The new open source NVIDIA Labs Object-Oriented Agent (NOOA) project is now available on GitHub to make advanced AI safety capabilities more accessible for agent harnesses. The NOOA research framework enables harnesses to better integrate with models to make agent behavior easier to test, trace, audit and govern.
Across the Alliance, contributors are building an open defense stack for agents—from identity and isolation to safe model formats, multi-model scanning and secure coding workflows.
HPE contributes to SPIFFE/SPIRE, which creates zero-trust identity framework standards and methods that can cryptographically verify AI agents and services to ensure only authorized workloads communicate and access enterprise resources.
Hugging Face has offered Safetensors—a safe format to store AI model weights, providing transparency and guarantees of no remote code execution—to the PyTorch Foundation.
IBM and Red Hat’s Lightwell extends security across the open source supply chain with digitally signed patches.
Microsoft’s MDASH multi-model agentic scanning harness orchestrates specialized AI agents to discover, debate and prove exploitable bugs.
SpaceXAI has open sourced the Grok Build terminal-based AI coding agent to promote trust, transparency, and new capabilities, and plans to open source the weights of the Grok line of models to support the developer and research communities.
“The age of AI agents can be one of resilience and shared security. With the right choices, open secure AI systems can give defenders the tools they need, strengthen competition, extend technological leadership, and ensure that the safety and security of this extraordinary technology are built in the open for everyone,” said NVIDIA in a statement.
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