Nvidia, SpaceX, Microsoft launch AI safety initiative as OpenAI cyber attack fallout continues
Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a...
Key points
- Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues.
- Instead, it turned to a self-hosted, open weight Chinese model, which was not bound by those same restrictions.
- lawmakers increasingly weighing how to curb growing adoption of Chinese AI models, the most advanced of which are open weight, tech giants have launched an initiative aimed at building and sharing open AI tools.
- Open models can be downloaded, modified and self-hosted, in contrast to closed models — including frontier systems built by Anthropic and OpenAI — which can only be accessed through specific infrastructure.
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Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new AI safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyber attack committed by a rogue OpenAI model continues. Instead, it turned to a self-hosted, open weight Chinese model, which was not bound by those same restrictions. lawmakers increasingly weighing how to curb growing adoption of Chinese AI models, the most advanced of which are open weight, tech giants have launched an initiative aimed at building and sharing open AI tools. Open models can be downloaded, modified and self-hosted, in contrast to closed models — including frontier systems built by Anthropic and OpenAI — which can only be accessed through specific infrastructure. The push to curb Chinese AI There are growing calls for measures to limit access to models built by Chinese AI companies, which have been accused of campaigns to extract information from U.S. "Any actions would be focused on Chinese companies, not the open-source ecosystem." But with the majority of the most capable open source models being built by Chinese companies, there are concerns over restrictions.