Signal Cross-industry alliance forms to defend AI systems through openness

Summary

NVIDIA has led the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance, joined by more than thirty technology companies. The initiative starts from the premise that open-source software underpins cloud computing, finance, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services worldwide, with cybersecurity counted among the areas that benefit most from it. Building on existing community efforts such as the Linux Foundation and the OpenSSF, the alliance plans to work together on finding, disclosing and fixing vulnerabilities using open technologies. The group frames this as a pivotal choice for AI security, comparable to how open source once created a shared foundation for the broader software industry. It argues that the defenses protecting critical infrastructure can either remain locked inside a handful of opaque systems or be built on open models, harnesses and tools that any defender can study, adapt and deploy. On that basis, the alliance is calling on governments and enterprises to invest in shared, open AI security infrastructure.