Nvidia believes that AI should be developed in open collaboration. But it also can’t resist a super secretive AI company. On Monday, the chip giant announced that it was forming a coalition called the Open Secure AI Alliance, defining it’s purpose as “to develop and share open technologies, techniques and tools to safeguard software and agents in the age of AI.” The coalition will aim to support the proliferation of open-weight AI models, which is something that Nvidia has championed for some time now. Besides Nvidia, other inaugural members of the coalition include Palantir, Microsoft, OpenClaw, Salesforce, and SpaceX. Some of those companies were also the co-signatories of a letter supporting open-weight models and cautioning against “premature” government restrictions that could “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas.” The discussion over open versus closed AI models and who gets to control the technology has been renewed in the last couple weeks. First, Chinese AI lab Moonshot stirred the pot by releasing Kimi K3, a new open-weight model that ranked higher than most of its American peers in several benchmarks. Anthropic has accused several Chinese open-source model providers, including Moonshot of violating its rules by “illicitly” extracting the capabilities of its closed-source models to then build their own open-source models, prompting the Trump administration to threaten sanctions.