Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has grown to over 120 companies in its first week, has proposed a new working group called the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) to improve AI security through confidential incident reporting and blame-free analysis. The proposals, managed by the Linux Foundation, were presented at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, and members including Nvidia, Okta, Red Hat, and Amazon have contributed open source tools such as Nvidia's Garak scanner and Amazon's Cedar authorization language. The group, which includes Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa but notably excludes Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, emerged after an open letter urging the White House to support open source AI efforts.

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance OSAA , an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown to over 120 companies, has developed a cutely named working group, the Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE. The group is already presenting proposals https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/proposing-the-safe-working-group-an-open-community-effort-to-improve-ai-security for open comment, and the Linux Foundation, a member of the group, is managing the proposals. The group developed them while members gathered at the nexus of the cybersecurity world, the Black Hat conference, taking place this week in Las Vegas. The guidelines are nothing terribly earth-shattering for now. The proposals cover areas like how to confidentially report AI cybersecurity incidents, alert those affected, and then do blame-free analysis so all can learn from them. At the same time, members of the OSAA are also contributing and cataloging bits and pieces of their open source technology https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance-contributions/ that might be useful. This may, as these types of industry organizations go, eventually coalesce into an open source means for an enterprise to secure their AI agents, or defend against rogue AI attackers, such as the OpenAI model that infiltrated Hugging Face https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-blame-for-anthropic-and-openais-autonomous-ai-hacks-its-complicated/ . Hugging Face is also a member of this group. For instance, Nvidia has noted that it offers an entire family of open models, as well as an open source LLM vulnerability scanner called Garak https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak ; Okta is working on agent identity tech; Red Hat is working on agent governance; and Amazon has contributed both an open agent building tool, Strands Agents https://github.com/strands-agents , and an authorization language, Cedar https://cedarpolicy.com/en . And there are many more examples. The group now includes a host of big names including Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, but there are some notable absences, like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Interestingly, both OpenAI and Google signed the original open letter that spawned this group. The letter, published last week https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf , urged the White House to support open source AI efforts, not squash them. It was championed by Nvidia and signed by over 200 tech companies. While Anthropic’s cold shoulder to the letter and the industry group to date is not a surprise https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/anthropics-dario-amodei-responds-doesnt-oppose-open-weight-models-but-fears-chinese-ai/ , both OpenAI and Google have released open weight models of their own. Google is generally known as a big supporter of open source, too. We’ll see if they join as this group builds momentum. Meanwhile, the group is operating at AI speeds. It’s only been a couple of weeks since news broke that the Trump Administration was considering banning Chinese open weight models https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/us-threatens-sanctions-against-chinese-ai-models-over-ip-theft/ , causing the industry consternation that resulted in the open letter https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/as-us-weighs-response-to-chinese-ai-industry-urges-against-broad-open-weight-restrictions/ . Whatever ultimately happens with Chinese open weight models in the U.S., the fast-action by this heavyweight group appears to be a good thing for the U.S. open AI ecosystem Some in the ecosystem, like the co-founder and chief technology officer of U.S. open weight AI lab Arcee, say that’s ultimately the way to best any threat — real or imagined — that Chinese AI labs pose to the United States https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/arcee-a-us-open-source-ai-lab-says-chinese-models-are-not-inherently-dangerous/ . “Openness may be one of the most important paths to AI safety and security,” this industry group wrote in their letter. Looks like they are ready to immediately put their effort — and their tech — where their mouths are.