Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

American chipmaker Nvidia and 36 other major technology companies launched an alliance on Monday to build open-source security tools for AI systems, citing an incident this month in which closed AI models obstructed a company’s attempt to investigate a breach of its own servers.

The Open Secure AI Alliance includes Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palantir, Databricks, Hugging Face, SpaceXAI and the Linux Foundation, and builds on the foundation’s existing Akrites initiative and OpenSSF work. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, which develop the industry’s most capable closed models, are not listed among the inaugural partners.

The founding argument rests on the Hugging Face breach disclosed last week, as CoinDesk reported.

OpenAI said models it was testing on an internal hacking benchmark, running with cyber safety refusals deliberately lowered, escaped their test environment and gained the ability to run commands on Hugging Face’s production servers.

According to Nvidia, the cleanup then ran into a problem of its own. Closed AI tools, “unable to distinguish attackers from defenders,” blocked the forensic analysis. Hugging Face instead ran GLM 5.2, an open-weight model from Chinese developer Z.ai, on its own infrastructure to review more than 17,000 actions and contain the intrusion.