Nvidia, SpaceX, Microsoft launch AI safety initiative as OpenAI cyber attack fallout continues

Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues. Last week, it emerged that the target of the attack, startup Hugging Face, was unable to use leading U.S. frontier models to defend itself, with guardrails not distinguishing between aggressor and defender. Instead, it turned to a self-hosted, open weight Chinese model, which was not bound by those same restrictions.In the wake of U.S. lawmakers increasingly weighing how to curb growing adoption of Chinese AI models, the most advanced of which are open weight, tech giants have launched an initiative aimed at building and sharing open AI tools.Open models can be downloaded, modified and self-hosted, in contrast to closed models — including frontier systems built by Anthropic and OpenAI — which can only be accessed through specific infrastructure."The Open Secure AI Alliance will work to remediate and disclose vulnerabilities using open technologies," Nvidia said in a statement. "The recent Hugging Face security incident delivered a clear reminder: cyber defenders need open, frontier agentic systems for ...