A consortium of technology companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, Hugging Face, Salesforce and Palantir has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry initiative to develop open-source tools and standards for AI safety and cybersecurity.
“That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance,” he added.
More than 40 companies and organizations are participating as founding members, with others including Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, SAP, Siemens, Red Hat and NetApp.
Nvidia said it will contribute open models, model weights, datasets, and research on AI agent harnesses. The company also released the Nvidia Labs Object-Oriented Agent, or NOOA, framework as open source on GitHub, saying it is designed to make AI agents easier to test, audit and govern.
Nvidia said the alliance is intended to ensure that the AI systems protecting critical infrastructure are built on open models and tools that defenders can inspect, adapt, and deploy, rather than relying on a small number of opaque proprietary systems.
“The world needs both closed and open models,” the company wrote. “For cybersecurity, open models and open harnesses are essential because they democratize defensive capabilities, increase transparency for defenders, enable cyber defense while protecting data, and complement frontier closed models with customizable, localized controls. Open source enables massively distributed community-driven and self-controlled defense—with no single point of failure.”
