OpenAI Reportedly Declined to Join the Open Secure AI Alliance, Drawing Internal Backlash
r/LocalLLaMA (relaying @mark_k on X)·low signal
A widely-shared r/LocalLLaMA post (377 upvotes) relays a claim that OpenAI management decided on July 27 not to join NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Alliance, that the decision was communicated internally, and that it met with employee pushback. What is independently verifiable is only the negative fact: neither OpenAI nor Anthropic appears on NVIDIA's published 40+ member list, which is consistent with but does not confirm the reported internal decision. Treating this as low confidence — the sourcing is a single X post relayed through Reddit, with no company statement or named reporting behind it.