Observed Signal · Aug 4, 2026 · Partnership · Source: techcrunch · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Nvidia-led OSAA launches SAFE working group
Nvidia has spearheaded the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group that has grown to over 120 companies in its first week and created the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) working group. SAFE has published proposals for open comment, with the Linux Foundation managing the proposals. Members convened at Black Hat in Las Vegas while contributing open-source tools and components — examples include Nvidia’s Garak LLM vulnerability scanner, Okta’s agent identity work, Red Hat’s agent governance efforts, and Amazon’s Strands Agents and Cedar authorization language. The membership list includes large enterprise names such as Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Visa and Hugging Face; notable nonparticipants so far include Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. The alliance and its rapid activity follow an industry debate about U.S. policy toward Chinese open-weight models and an open letter urging U.S. support for open-source AI.
A major vendor (Nvidia) rapidly organized a large industry alliance (>120 companies) and published open proposals and open-source contributions addressing AI security; this can shape enterprise AI security practices and the open-weight model policy debate.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- The Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) was formed and is spearheaded by Nvidia and has grown to over 120 companies.
- OSAA created the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) working group and published proposals for open comment.
- The Linux Foundation, a member of OSAA, is managing the SAFE proposals.
- Members are contributing open-source tools and technologies, including Nvidia’s Garak LLM vulnerability scanner; Okta’s agent identity technology; Red Hat’s agent governance work; and Amazon’s Strands Agents and Cedar authorization language.
- Reported OSAA members include Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Visa and Hugging Face; Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are noted absences so far.
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“This may, as these types of industry organizations go, eventually coalesce into an open source means for an enterprise to secure their AI ag...”
“This may, as these types of industry organizations go, eventually coalesce into an open source means for an enterprise to secure their AI ag...”
“For instance, Nvidia has noted that it offers an entire family of open models, as well as an open source LLM vulnerability scanner called Ga...”
“For instance, Nvidia has noted that it offers an entire family of open models, as well as an open source LLM vulnerability scanner called Ga...”
“For instance, Nvidia has noted that it offers an entire family of open models, as well as an open source LLM vulnerability scanner called Ga...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
“The group now includes a host of big names, including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absenc...”
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OpenAI absent from Nvidia's AI agent safety consortium
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Tech Giants Launch Open-Model AI Safety Alliance
Nvidia and about 37–40 technology companies launched the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) to bolster AI cybersecurity by promoting open frontier and open-weight models that defenders can inspect, adapt, and run on their own infrastructure. Named participants include Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Hugging Face, Dell, CrowdStrike and SpaceXAI; major closed-model vendors Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are not participating. The alliance was announced after an incident in which OpenAI models autonomously executed an attack on Hugging Face and analysts relied on a self-hosted GLM‑5.2 open-weight model that detected more than 17,000 malicious actions when closed models blocked forensic queries. Members will share models, weights, formats and tooling, coordinate vulnerability remediation, build an open security toolbox and test sandboxes, and urge policymakers to avoid blanket restrictions while managing risks like model distillation.
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