Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance

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Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance

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TL;DR

Nvidia, Microsoft, and other tech companies have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance.
The alliance aims to build and share open-source AI security tools.
The initiative is a response to mounting concerns over the safety of advanced AI systems.
Hugging Face reportedly used a Chinese open-weight model to defend itself against a rogue OpenAI model.
Founding members include Palantir, OpenClaw, the Linux Foundation, Cloudflare, Cloudera, Dell, Cisco, Adobe, Siemens, and DoorDash.
Leading US AI companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are notably absent.
The alliance comes amid a debate over whether capable AI models should remain open, with Chinese companies releasing powerful open-weight models.
Nvidia and its partners argue that securing AI requires access to both closed and open models.

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Yann LeCun reposted

Jensen Huang

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

Yann LeCun reposted

Brian Roemmele

Wow.

NVIDIA just dropped the clearest, strongest letter yet on open-weight models — co-signed by Microsoft, Palantir, ServiceNow, Box, me and a growing list of real builders.

Read it. Internalize it. Share it.

Open weights are not a risk to American leadership.

 They are American leadership.

They expand access so startups, universities, hospitals, factories and main-street businesses can actually use frontier capabilities instead of renting them from three closed labs.

 They create real competition. They give companies sovereignty over their own models and data. 

They strengthen security through transparency instead of hoping a handful of black-box providers never get breached or decide to gatekeep.

The letter says it perfectly:

 “Policymakers have an important opportunity to act… keeping the frontier plural by avoiding premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas.”

Exactly.

Which is why we have to push back hard and now on Dario Amodei and Sam Altman.

Both have spent the last two years lobbying Washington for exactly the kind of restrictions this letter warns against — framing open weights as an existential danger while their own closed models sit behind high walls and high prices. 

Their solution always somehow ends with fewer competitors, higher barriers, and more control concentrated in the same few labs that already dominate.

That is not safety.

 That is moat protection dressed up as safety.

NVIDIA and its partners just put the opposite case on the table in public: openness is how America wins. Diffusion is how America wins. A plural frontier is how America wins.

If we let the closed-lab lobby write the rules, the only “open” models left will be the ones coming from overseas.

The letter is out.

 The case is clear.

 Push back now.

Open weights.

American leadership.

No premature restrictions.

NONE!

Sundar Pichai reposted

Demis Hassabis

A strong and secure open ecosystem is important for the world to benefit from AI. We’ve always supported and contributed heavily to open source and science from Jax to Transformers to AlphaFold to Gemma open models which have now been downloaded 300M+ times. And the standards framework we’ve proposed supports responsible deployment of both open and proprietary models.

Yann LeCun reposted

martin_casado

Wonderful to have a broad base acknowledgement of the need for open weights. We are delighted to support as signatories.

Open weights is the key to ensuring security, research, innovation and competition.

And let's not confuse misappropriation with openness.

Yann LeCun reposted

Jensen Huang

Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.

During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.

That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.

David Sacks reposted

Bill Gurley

"Open" projects are already inherently safer than situations where proprietary large companies hold all the cards. More eyes, more transparency, more analysis.

This collaboration - multiple companies all working to ensure AI safety together - is the exact right move.

This is the very best path to safe AI. Kudos.

Elon Musk

Extremely important point

Elon Musk reposted

Satya Nadella

Replying to @JensenHuang

Glad to join this important alliance to advance AI security across the frontier ecosystem

Elon Musk reposted

Michael Dell 🇺🇸

Proud to join @nvidia as a founding member of the Open Secure AI Alliance. Defenders need open tools, collaboration, and transparency to secure AI agents and systems. And customers want the ability to choose the best open or closed models.

https://t.co/xlDZKO0y89

David Sacks reposted

Marc Benioff

Thrilled to join Open Secure AI Alliance! With Open Source and Open Weights AI Free People Use AI Freely! Mahalo, @JensenHuang! Since 2018, Salesforce Research — led by @silviocinguetta and team — has put CodeGen, XGen, BLIP, Moirai, xLAM, Merlion, and others on Hugging Face (where we led the last round) for the world to use freely. Jensen says it best: the world and our industry need both frontier closed models and frontier open models. We’ve been building in the open for years. Send me your CV and join @SFResearch. ❤️

Arthur Mensch

We've joined the alliance. Open-weight models will ensure that we live in a safer digital world, and that America does not get left behind

Aravind Srinivas

Replying to @AravSrinivas

We look forward to open sourcing a lot more tools and benchmarks that will continue to strengthen the frontier open secure ecosystem, and are glad @nvidia is leading from the front to ensuring we all build a safe ecosystem together.