NVIDIA forms security alliance, leaves out OpenAI and Anthropic

NVIDIA launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27 with more than 40 founding members.

The group is positioned to set the technical terms other AI agent builders will have to answer to. Huang's framing is pointed: during the Hugging Face breach, he says, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight model helped contain it instead, after Hugging Face ran GLM 5.2 on its own infrastructure to analyze more than 17,000 actions.

Founding members include Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Palantir, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, and Databricks. Also on it: Hugging Face, LangChain, Nous Research, Reflection AI, Thinking Machines Lab, SpaceXAI, and the Linux Foundation.

First deliverables ship with the launch: NVIDIA's NOOA agent framework, HPE's SPIFFE/SPIRE identity system, and Hugging Face's Safetensors format. IBM and Red Hat contribute Lightwell for supply-chain security, Microsoft adds its MDASH scanning harness, and SpaceXAI is open-sourcing its Grok Build agent.

Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is on the roster. A single relayed post on X, surfaced on Reddit's r/LocalLLaMA, claims OpenAI's management decided against joining and faced internal pushback for it. That's low confidence: the absence from the roster is verifiable, the internal account isn't.