Nvidia defends open source AI alliance, saying hundreds and hundreds of companies being vetted

Nvidia has defended a coalition created to develop and share tools for AI safety and cyber defence and avoid a repeat of the OpenAI Hugging Face hack, when questioned that participants would sidestep it in an AI land grab. The US chip powerhouse announced the creation of the Open Secure Al Alliance, whose members include leading European tech companies Mistral, Hugging Face, and UiPath, in July this year, just days after the Hugging Face incident. The coalition is designed to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity. Other members include Microsoft, Adobe and Dell but not Google, Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI, according to the alliance website. Mark Weatherford, head of cybersecurity policy, Nvidia, described the genesis of the alliance. He said: “There are a lot of conversations going on in the White House with the president, and in the legislature around creating new laws around regulation, not just AI, but both closed and open models and open source more broadly. At Nvi