G42 has joined Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance, reinforcing industry support for open-weight and open-source AI models to strengthen cyber security, AI sovereignty and collaborative defence.
Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 has joined Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance, becoming the latest organisation to back open-weight and open-source AI models for cyber security and AI sovereignty.
The alliance, which now includes at least 37 organisations, aims to develop open techniques, tools and research to safeguard AI systems and agents. Members include IBM, Microsoft, Hugging Face, Salesforce, Cisco, Adobe, Cloudflare, Palantir, Perplexity, SpaceX and DoorDash.
“The future of AI will be defined not only by how capable our models become, but by how securely and confidently nations and enterprises can build on them,” said Peng Xiao, Chief Executive of G42. “Frontier open models are an essential part of that future, alongside frontier closed models, with security, trust and sovereign control designed in from the start rather than bolted on later.”
Nvidia said the alliance was partly inspired by the recent Hugging Face cyber-security incident, arguing that open AI systems are becoming increasingly important for cyber defence. According to the company, Hugging Face used the open-weight GLM 5.2 model on its own infrastructure to analyse more than 17,000 actions after closed AI tools proved unsuitable for forensic analysis.
“The recent Hugging Face security incident delivered a clear reminder: cyber defenders need open, frontier agentic systems for self-defence,” Nvidia said, adding that “Defenders need both frontier closed models and frontier open models, working together so they can choose the right system for the job and ensure that transparency, adaptation and sovereign control are available wherever security demands them.”
The announcement follows Nvidia’s recent open letter supporting open-weight AI, signed by 25 major companies, and comes amid growing debate over proprietary versus open AI as well as reports that US regulators may seek restrictions on certain open AI models.
