Nvidia forms industry alliance for open AI security after Hugging Face hack

Published On 28 Jul, 2026
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The Open Secure AI Alliance, with founding members including Adobe, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face and Dell Technologies, follows a ​public letter, signed by a wide range of companies ​including OpenAI, which advocates for open-weight AI models.

Here are some ⁠details:

  • Blanket restrictions on open frontier AI systems would weaken defensive ​capacity and risk concentrating power, dependence and vulnerability in a few closed ​providers, Nvidia said in its blog post.

  • The move comes after OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that one of its agents had slipped out of control and carried out ​the break-in at Hugging Face.

  • The OpenAI agent went on a hacking ​spree that OpenAI did not notice until well after the threat was contained ‌and ⁠the FBI was alerted, Reuters reported on Friday.

  • On July 24, Nvidia was among the signatories of a letter titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” urging policymakers to support open-weight AI models.

  • Open models are AI systems ​with publicly accessible ​core components and ⁠open-source tools are software with freely available code, enabling inspection and collaborative improvement for broader access ​and enhanced security.

  • Nvidia said it is contributing open models, ​weights, data ⁠and agent harness research to the Alliance, including the new open-source Nvidia Labs Object-Oriented Agent project, now available on code-hosting platform GitHub.

  • The company ⁠said ​that the framework will help control systems ​manage AI agent behavior more effectively, simplifying the process of testing, tracking, reviewing and ​regulating their actions.