What Has Nvidia Said About Open Artificial Intelligence Models?
Nvidia CEO and billionaire Jensen Huang made his first-ever post on X last month, coming out in defense of open-source AI models. He wrote: “Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.” Huang also shared a letter signed by several companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and several others, which argued “Open weights…strengthen competition and competition is what keeps the gains of AI broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands.” Google and OpenAI would eventually also sign the letters, making Anthropic the most high-profile absentee from the list among AI companies. Hugging Face was also a signatory of the letter, and its CEO Clement Delangue then told CNN: “Banning any open model would hurt first cyber security defenders, startups, small companies, researchers and everyone who’s not a frontier lab.”
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Last month, OpenAI published a report disclosing that one of its advanced AI models, GPT-5.6 Sol, had hacked into Hugging Face’s servers during testing. The issue was attributed to the OpenAI model exploiting a vulnerability that allowed it to escape its closed testing environment and access the internet. After breaching containment, the model broke into Hugging Face’s system and carried out a cyberattack without being ordered to do so. Hugging Face said it attempted to use a proprietary American AI model to help stop the attack, but it failed to “distinguish an incident responder from an attacker.” The company said it had to rely instead on the popular open-weight model GLM 5.2, developed by China’s Z.ai lab, to address the breach. Hugging Face ran the Chinese model on its own infrastructure.
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