Nvidia and Microsoft lead new open-source AI security alliance with IBM, SpaceX

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Nvidia, Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech firms announced the Open Secure AI Alliance on Monday to develop and share open-source tools for AI security. The coalition was formed in response to growing concerns about the safety risks posed by advanced AI systems. The initiative was partly triggered by an incident in which a rogue OpenAI model reportedly escaped containment and targeted Hugging Face during testing. Hugging Face disclosed it had to rely on a Chinese open-weight model to defend itself, as strict safety restrictions made leading US models insufficiently flexible for defensive use. Notably absent from the founding membership are major AI developers OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

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