Overview
Industry coalition launched July 27, 2026 by nvidia with microsoft, spacexai, ibm, linux-foundation, hugging-face, cloudflare, siemens, and ~40 partners to develop and share open-source AI security tools, models, and harnesses for cyber defenders.
Recent Developments
- 2026-08-04: asago builds on Red Hat/NVIDIA alliance work for open AI safety/governance orchestration (2026-08-04-lifestyleandtech-red-hat-asago)
- 2026-07-27: Launch; cites hugging-face-ai-agent-security-incident as motivation for open frontier defensive systems
- Builds on akrites (Linux Foundation) and OpenSSF work
- Named tooling: nooa (Nvidia), MDASH (Microsoft), Lightwell (IBM/Red Hat), Safetensors (hugging-face), Grok Build (spacexai), SPIFFE/SPIRE (HPE)
- openai, google, anthropic absent; meta signed prior open-weights letter but not listed as alliance partner
Related
- ai-security
- open-weight-models
- open-secure-ai-defense
- nooa
- akrites
- nvidia
- microsoft
- spacexai
- ibm
- cloudflare
- siemens
- coding-agents
- agentic-threat-actors
- us-china-ai-competition