Nvidia launches new open-source AI security alliance

Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the U.S.

Nvidia announced Monday that the Open Secure AI Alliance will use open-source tools to identify, patch and disclose security vulnerabilities across infrastructure.

Open models, according to Nvidia, “democratize defensive capabilities, increase transparency for defenders, enable cyber defense while protecting data, and complement frontier closed models with customizable, localized controls.”

“Open source enables massively distributed community-driven and self-controlled defense – with no single point of failure,” the company wrote.

Unlike private models, open-source models live in the public domain where any person or business can download and customize them for personal use. These systems can be used, modified, examined and shared with anyone, for any purpose. 

Proponents often consider open models to be more transparent, as the entirety of training data, code and process is publicly available. 

The alliance includes other........

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