Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity

Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday it had formed a coalition with other companies to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity …

Reuters 2026-07-27 Jaspreet Singh

Context & Ripple Effects

Nvidia is extending a pattern of industry coordination around secure and open AI: it previously joined a cross-industry secure-AI coalition focused on shared practices, while Meta and IBM’s earlier AI Alliance also made risk reduction part of open-source collaboration.

The new group arrives days after Nvidia’s chief executive argued that open-weight models can strengthen cybersecurity. With Hugging Face, CrowdStrike and Dell involved, the effort connects model distribution, security operations and enterprise deployment rather than treating safety as a lab-only concern.

First-order effects

Alliance members gain a venue to develop and share AI-safety and cybersecurity tools, giving participating enterprises and developers a common collaboration channel.
Nvidia broadens its role from AI compute supplier to convener of the security tooling and practices around AI deployments; Hugging Face, CrowdStrike and Dell bring model, security and infrastructure perspectives into that work.

Second-order effects

Security vendors, model platforms and enterprise infrastructure providers outside the coalition may face pressure to make their own AI-security tooling more interoperable or participate in comparable shared efforts.
Shared tools could lower the integration burden for organizations deploying open models, provided the alliance produces artifacts that are usable beyond its founding members.

Third-order effects

If such coalitions yield adopted tools rather than only guidance, AI security could increasingly be shaped through shared technical infrastructure and industry-led standards alongside company-specific controls.
The move reinforces a split in AI competition: firms can compete over models and infrastructure while jointly treating security for widely distributed models as a collective ecosystem problem.

The trend: AI companies are pairing support for open model ecosystems with collaborative security infrastructure intended to make those ecosystems more deployable in enterprises.

Discussion

@jensenhuang Jensen Huang on x
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 …
@jun_song Jun Song on x
Remember these companies. And as expected, OpenAI signed on, but they're noticeably absent from the partnership itself. Which makes total sense, given how aggressively they've been lobbying to ban open weight models.
@nvidia @nvidia on x
AI security advances when the industry builds in the open, together. We're introducing the Open Secure AI Alliance with industry leaders to develop new techniques and tools to safeguard software and agents. By sharing models, tooling and research in the open, we can broaden the c…
@salesforce @salesforce on x
Salesforce customers want the flexibility to choose the models that work best for them—open or closed. We've supported open innovation on Hugging Face since 2018, and now we're proud to join the Open Secure AI Alliance. We'll continue innovating with trust at the center, helping …
@gavinsbaker Gavin Baker on x
An outcome where AI is dominated by a few dominant frontier models is dangerous for America. Super negative for national security. The Hugging Face incident and Anthropic/DoD dustup are object evidence of the risks. Happy to see this.
@katiemiller Katie Miller on x
Open Secure AI Alliance without OpenAI. Something says they don't actually want to be Open...
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
@JensenHuang Glad to join this important alliance to advance AI security across the frontier ecosystem
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
this tweet really spells out for me how weird and fraught all the frenemy relationships are across the valley on friday, openai signs the open letter supporting open source on monday, this alliance is framed using the OAI hack as the existential danger, but also a defender
@chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x
A cogent explanation about what we are dealing with: do we want an ecosystem of like-for-like tools or monopoly lock-in? The former is better and benefits everyone. The latter only benefits a few. This especially matters on issues of security.
@brianroemmele Brian Roemmele on x
We are very, very fortunate to have a person of @JensenHuang's character leading one of the most important companies in AI. His leadership opposing that single large AI company trying to ban Open Source AI is powerful. This is history and we speak in one unified voice: NO. Thank …
@kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x
Jensen Huang second post ever: he isn't just arguing for open AI anymore but building an alliance around it. NVIDIA has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with companies like Microsoft, Hugging Face, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, SAP, Red Hat, Cloudflare and many more. The me…
@xfreeze @xfreeze on x
NVIDIA deserves massive credit for everything it has done for the open-source community NVIDIA …
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Very desperate for him to be posting this much
Rich Harang Rich Harang on linkedin
I try not to post too much NVIDIA-specific stuff, but I'm glad NVIDIA is pushing this: https://lnkd.in/... Attackers routinely abuse access to frontier models to drive operations. …
Pierre Roux Pierre Roux on linkedin
Last week, a broad coalition made the case that openness strengthens AI security. This week, Reflection joins the group building for it. …
Jensen Huang Jensen Huang on linkedin
Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community. …
Dinesh Nirmal Dinesh Nirmal on linkedin
Security improves when organizations can inspect, adapt and strengthen the software they rely on. — We're joining industry leaders …
@andrewyng Andrew Ng on x
Good move by @JensenHuang. The Nvidia letter is well written and worth reading. As we saw with the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, we need open models and harnesses for defense. Lets stop believing the PR that closed models are safer. - that's just regulatory capture.
@bgurley Bill Gurley on x
“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 …
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
Extremely important point
@ccatalini Christian Catalini on x
The last founder who promised to bring “safety” to a new technology by lobbying for (his) guardrails was @SBF_FTX. He almost succeeded. Hopefully the Open Secure AI alliance can ensure this never happens in the market for intelligence.
@dan_jeffries1 Daniel Jeffries on x
If multiple Mythos level models are out there in the hands of attackers, now or in a few years …
@tekbog @tekbog on x
what can stop a bad guy with a frontier model? a good guy with a frontier model
r/technology r on reddit
Nvidia, SpaceX, Microsoft launch AI safety initiative as OpenAI cyberattack fallout continues
@benioff Marc Benioff on x
Thrilled to join Open Secure AI Alliance! With Open Source and Open Weights AI Free People Use AI Freely! …

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