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 2026-07-28 Jaspreet Singh

Context & Ripple Effects

Nvidia’s coalition follows earlier industry efforts to share secure-AI practices, including the 2024 Coalition for Secure AI. It also arrives as Nvidia has publicly aligned itself with the case for open-weight models as a cybersecurity asset.

The combination of Nvidia, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell connects compute, security, model distribution, and enterprise infrastructure around a shared safety-and-cybersecurity effort. That makes the alliance relevant not only to model development but also to how AI is deployed and defended.

First-order effects

Nvidia and its named partners gain a formal venue to develop and share AI safety and cybersecurity tools, potentially reducing duplication among their respective product and deployment teams.
CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell become visible collaborators in an Nvidia-led security initiative, linking their security, model-platform, and enterprise-infrastructure roles more closely.

Second-order effects

Other AI vendors and security providers may face pressure to join comparable collaborations or demonstrate interoperable approaches to securing AI deployments.
Enterprises deploying AI could encounter a more coordinated set of security tools and practices across the Nvidia-centered stack, though the alliance’s practical impact depends on what it releases and how broadly those tools are adopted.

Third-order effects

If such coalitions produce reusable tools rather than only principles, AI security may increasingly be built through shared infrastructure maintained by competing vendors and open-model platforms.
The initiative reinforces a structural contest over whether open AI ecosystems can pair broad access with credible safeguards—a question already central to the earlier AI Alliance’s risk-reduction agenda.

The trend: AI companies are moving from high-level safety commitments toward cross-stack collaborations that treat shared security tooling as essential infrastructure for open and enterprise AI.

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 …
@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.
@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…
@jawwwn_ @jawwwn_ on x
Alex Karp explains why Palantir signed Nvidia CEO @JensenHuang's Open Secure AI Alliance …
@arthurmensch Arthur Mensch on x
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
@michaeldell Michael Dell on x
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://x.com/...
@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 …
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
@JensenHuang Glad to join this important alliance to advance AI security across the frontier ecosystem
@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.
@andyfang Andy Fang on x
@DoorDash is proud to join the Open Secure AI Alliance to advance AI Security. It's critically important for defenders like ourselves to be able to develop and deploy the strongest cybersecurity tools. Open, auditable tools, and models that invite broad participation and scrutiny…
@openclaw @openclaw on x
NVIDIA has been an incredible partner in helping make OpenClaw more secure. Security is a team sport, and open collaboration is how we protect the next generation of agents. Proud to join the Open Secure AI Alliance. More defenders, fewer sharp corners. 🦞🔐
@chuckrobbins Chuck Robbins on x
The AI era demands that we defend together. Cisco is proud to join @NVIDIA and other industry leaders as a founding member of the Open Secure AI Alliance, a group committed to developing and sharing open technologies to safeguard software and agents. Together, we'll work to ensur…
@benioff Marc Benioff on x
Thrilled to join Open Secure AI Alliance! With Open Source and Open Weights AI Free People Use AI Freely! …
@altimor Flo Crivello on x
Funny how Anthropic saying “our product might kill everyone” is them talking their book but Nvidia saying “we should support open source models running on Nvidia GB200™ GPUs” is stunning and brave, actually
@jeffwang Jeff Wang on x
@cognition has joined the alliance For our contribution we have released a trustworthiness evaluation which measures alignment and security risks of open-source derived models. They demonstrate these risks can be mitigated via post-training. https://cognition.com/... Open source …
@steipete Peter Steinberger on x
We do all the amazing security work with some of the best teams in the world and people still think we're unsafe. 🙃
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
Extremely important point
@tekbog @tekbog on x
what can stop a bad guy with a frontier model? a good guy with a frontier model
@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.
@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.
@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 …
@katiemiller Katie Miller on x
Open Secure AI Alliance without OpenAI. Something says they don't actually want to be Open...
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Very desperate for him to be posting this much
@xfreeze @xfreeze on x
NVIDIA deserves massive credit for everything it has done for the open-source community NVIDIA …
@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 …
@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…
@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.
@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 …
Stephanie Cohen Stephanie Cohen on linkedin
Open weight models are a critical component of a robust AI future. Effective defense requires open standards, shared threat intel, and frameworks people can audit. …
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. …
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 …
@flingjore.com @flingjore.com on bluesky
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX launch the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop open-source cybersecurity tools. The coalition forms as tech giants lobby Washington against restricting Chinese open-weight models after a cyberattack proved closed AI systems are ineffective for defense…
r/technology r on reddit
Nvidia, SpaceX, Microsoft launch AI safety initiative as OpenAI cyberattack fallout continues
r/BANDOFBROTHERSOFSRNE r on reddit
FYI: IBM

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