OpenAI absent from Nvidia's AI agent safety consortium
Nvidia launched a consortium of over 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI agents, called the Open Agent Safety Platform. OpenAI, along with Amazon, Google, and Apple, did not publicly sign on, despite OpenAI being a major player and Anthropic supporting it. However, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company supports Nvidia's work and is collaborating on OpenShell, a sandbox component. OpenAI is developing its own safeguards and has its own consortium, Defense Factory, with partners like Anthropic, AWS, and Google. The platform includes a proprietary hardware element (Nvidia Sentry on BlueField-4 DPUs) which may deter some from full commitment. Hugging Face, which Nvidia acquired for $12.9 billion, contributed a feature to detect unauthorized agent activity.
- •Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, with over 100 companies supporting it.
- •OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Apple did not publicly sign on to the consortium.
- •OpenAI is collaborating with Nvidia on OpenShell, a sandbox designed to prevent agent escapes.
