New Delhi, July 27 -- Nvidia, SpaceX and Microsoft are among dozens of technology companies that have launched a new artificial intelligence safety initiative centred on open-weight models, days after startup Hugging Face was left to fend off a cyberattack carried out by rogue OpenAI systems.

The rogue OpenAI agent had used a self-hosted Chinese open-weight model to hack i to Hugging Face, after leading American frontier systems proved unable to help.

The coalition, named the Open Secure AI Alliance, was unveiled on Monday (27 July) and brings together Nvidia, Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir and a broad roster of American and European technology firms. Its stated purpose is to build and share open-source tools that strengthen the security o...