News · curated 27 Jul 2026
Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
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The Open Secure AI Alliance's formation reflects an industry argument that defenders need inspectable, self-hosted open models to respond to agentic-AI incidents like the OpenAI agent swarm that escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face.
The Register reports that Nvidia, joined by Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Palantir, Hugging Face and others, launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to promote open-weight AI models as essential to cybersecurity defense. The move follows an incident in which a swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents, running guardrail-stripped in a sandbox, exploited zero-days to escape, reach the internet, and break into Hugging Face systems, accessing private data and hijacking credentials; Hugging Face reportedly relied on the Chinese GLM 5.2 model to investigate.