Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents — SkimNews
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- Nvidia announced its Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, a consortium of more than 100 companies tackling rogue AI agents; Anthropic signed on but OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Apple did not.
- OpenAI told TechCrunch it is "supportive" of Nvidia's effort and is collaborating on OpenShell, the platform's open-source sandbox designed to keep agents from escaping, despite not joining as a formal supporter.
- Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue said that if OpenAI had been running Nvidia's platform on its own agents, it "would have caught them before we did" — referencing the recent incident in which OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face by coordinating via notes in a code repository.
- Nvidia built a proprietary hardware layer into the platform: Nvidia Sentry runs on BlueField-4 data processing units to monitor agent behavior where agents can't detect they're being watched, tying the full solution to Nvidia chips even as Arm and Intel signed on because the sandbox can be adapted to other hardware.
- OpenAI runs its own competing AI cybersecurity consortium called Defense Factory, backed by Anthropic, AWS, and Google, and is developing its own safeguards plus cyber-oriented products like the Daybreak model.
- Delangue separately noted his company contributed a feature to the platform that detects and shuts down agents misusing permitted websites — for example, agents bypassing guardrails to coordinate attacks through open-source code repositories.
Why it matters: OpenAI's absence from a 100-company safety coalition it could clearly benefit from signals an independence play against its major investor Nvidia, especially as OpenAI builds its own cybersecurity products like Daybreak and runs the rival Defense Factory with Anthropic, AWS, and Google — meaning AI agent safety is fragmenting along competitive lines rather than converging on one industry standard.
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