# Nvidia-Led Open Secure AI Alliance Reaches 120+ Members in One Week

> An Nvidia-led industry group, the Open Secure AI Alliance, signed up more than 120 companies in its first week, including Adobe, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, BlackRock and Visa. Its first concrete output is a working group called SAFE, run under the Linux Foundation, drafting proposals for confidential incident reporting, alerting affected parties, and blame-free analysis of AI security failures. The membership list is as telling for who is missing as who is in. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are absent, even though two of them signed the original open letter that seeded the effort. That gap hints at the tension between the labs building frontier models and the broader industry that has to secure and deploy them. Nvidia is seeding it with open-source tooling, including its Garak vulnerability scanner and shared authorization frameworks, while partners contribute pieces like Okta's agent identity and Amazon's Cedar policy language. Coming right as autonomous agents start showing up in real security incidents, a cross-industry push for shared norms on reporting and response is timely, if only the biggest labs would join.

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## Wortins' read

An Nvidia-led industry group, the Open Secure AI Alliance, signed up more than 120 companies in its first week, including Adobe, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, BlackRock and Visa. Its first concrete output is a working group called SAFE, run under the Linux Foundation, drafting proposals for confidential incident reporting, alerting affected parties, and blame-free analysis of AI security failures. The membership list is as telling for who is missing as who is in. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are absent, even though two of them signed the original open letter that seeded the effort. That gap hints at the tension between the labs building frontier models and the broader industry that has to secure and deploy them. Nvidia is seeding it with open-source tooling, including its Garak vulnerability scanner and shared authorization frameworks, while partners contribute pieces like Okta's agent identity and Amazon's Cedar policy language. Coming right as autonomous agents start showing up in real security incidents, a cross-industry push for shared norms on reporting and response is timely, if only the biggest labs would join.

## Source

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