Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies announced on Monday the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents.
The effort builds on existing work from the Linux Foundation’s recently launched Akrites initiative and the OpenSSF community.
Inaugural partners of the Open Secure AI Alliance also include Adobe, Cadence, Capital One, Cisco, Cloudera, Cloudflare, Cognition, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Dell, DoorDash, Elastic, HPE, Hugging Face, IBM, LangChain, Microsoft, Naver, NetApp, Nous Research, OpenClaw, Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Reflection AI, Salesforce, SAP, SK Telecom, ServiceNow, Siemens, Snowflake, SpaceXAI, Synopsys, Thinking Machines Lab, and TrendAI.
Nvidia’s contribution to the project includes open models, weights, data, and agent harness research, including a newly released open source project called NOOA, designed to help harnesses make agent behavior easier to trace, test, and audit.
HPE is contributing to SPIFFE/SPIRE, a zero-trust identity framework for cryptographically verifying AI agents and services, while Hugging Face is donating its Safetensors model weight storage format to the PyTorch Foundation.
