- Nvidia and Microsoft lead the list of founding members of the Open Secure AI Alliance
- AI, financial services, technology companies and other organizations developing AI services have joined the alliance.
- Notable exceptions include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Nvidia has confirmed its membership in the new Open Secure AI Alliance, a collective of industry-leading technology, financial and AI companies working collaboratively to ensure openness in the AI industry. However, interestingly, although Microsoft and OpenClaw are among the founding members, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are not.
Inspired by the open source movement and the Akrites AI cyber threat response initiative led by the Linux Foundation, the Open Secure AI Alliance aims to use open technologies to reveal and remediate vulnerabilities.
Citing the recent Hugging Face incident, where closed AI tools prevented a full investigation of the event, the Open Secure AI Alliance’s founding announcement underscores the importance of open models, highlighting how cybersecurity is one of the primary beneficiaries of open source software.
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A sizable group of well-known companies participate in the Open Secure AI Alliance, including OpenClaw, Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Crowdstrike, IBM, Linux Foundation, and Hugging Face.
Notable on this list are Google and Palantir and, of course, OpenAI, which was responsible for the Hugging Face attack. Since this event occurred during a cybersecurity benchmark test and the OpenAI model performed a fully automated attack on Hugging Face servers, it serves as an important demonstration of what closed source models are at risk in the world of AI.
“When defenders cannot inspect, adapt, and run advanced AI on their own infrastructure, their ability to respond is limited exactly when speed matters most,” says the Open Secure AI Alliance, emphasizing its mission: “to ensure that defenders around the world have open border tools they can trust and control.”
OpenAI’s lack of openness in addressing the incident and Hugging Face’s initial difficulties in analyzing the intrusion due to closed source models really underline the importance of this new partnership.
Open versus closed
The discussion over open and closed software models isn’t likely to end anytime soon, but the Open Secure AI Alliance certainly advocates for open models. Yes, they may be a risk that can be modified or abused, but those risks exist within closed systems.
Therefore, the vision of the alliance is to give defenders the tools to confront threats, rather than blocking those tools. After all, decades of cybersecurity research have shown that the best option is collaboration and testing or, as the Open Secure AI Alliance states, “the safest path is one that gives more defenders the ability to test, verify and harden the systems society depends on.”
Given OpenAI’s role in the Hugging Face incident, its absence makes sense, but what about Google and Anthropic? At a time when corporate collaboration is driving the development of new technologies within strict standards (for example, the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s work with Matter and Aliro), it seems that the Open Secure AI Alliance has the right idea.
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