Nvidia and other organisations have launched a new alliance to build and share open tools that promote the responsible use of and trust in AI.

The Open Secure AI Alliance follows on from a letter penned by top tech leaders, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, aimed at lawmakers to halt over-zealous regulation on open-source and open-weight AI models.

The Alliance, building on the leadership of the Linux Foundation’s Akrites initiative and OpenSSF community work, will work to remediate and disclose vulnerabilities using open technologies.

“Just as open source created a shared foundation for software, the United States and its partners now face a choice in AI security: whether the defenses that protect our infrastructure will sit inside a few opaque systems or be built on open models, harnesses and tools that any defender can study, adapt and deploy,” Nvidia’s blog said on the announcement.

Nvidia says that open models democratise defensive capabilities, increase transparency, and even compliment closed models.

The announcement of the Alliance is hot off the tails of the Hugging Face hack committed by OpenAI models in a cyber test. Hugging Face was blocked from using essential forensic analysis by the closed OpenAI models infiltrating it – it needed to employ the open-weight GLM 5.2 model to contain the intrusion.

“That incident showed a practical truth: when defenders cannot inspect, adapt and run advanced AI on their own infrastructure, their ability to respond is constrained at exactly the moment speed matters most,” Nvidia commented.

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“Companies and countries need open frontier defensive tools and techniques so critical industries can build security systems across a multi-vendor ecosystem and avoid single points of failure.”

The Open Secure AI Alliance has amassed a range of leaders across the tech ecosystem: Adobe, Cadence, Capital One, Cisco, Cloudera, Cloudflare, Cognition, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Dell Technologies, DoorDash, Elastic, HPE, Hugging Face, IBM, LangChain, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NAVER, NetApp, Nous Research, OpenClaw, Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Reflection AI, Salesforce, SAP, SK Telecom, ServiceNow, Siemens, Snowflake, SpacexAI, Synopsys, Thinking Machines Lab and TrendAI.