OpenClaw Joins Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance as Inaugural Partner

Nvidia and a coalition of leading technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies announced the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance — and OpenClaw is among the inaugural partners, standing alongside Adobe, Capital One, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Red Hat, and dozens of other major names.

The alliance’s mission: develop and share open-source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. Nvidia is contributing open models, weights, data, and agent harness research — including a newly released project called NOOA (Neural Open Operative Agent), designed to make agent behavior easier to trace, test, and audit.

Why It Matters

The announcement comes on the heels of a high-profile security incident at Hugging Face, where closed AI tools — unable to distinguish attackers from defenders — blocked forensic analysis. Hugging Face ultimately used the open-weight GLM 5.2 model on its own infrastructure to analyze over 17,000 actions and contain the breach. The alliance argues this proves defenders need open, inspectable systems:

“The right response is not to deny defenders access to capable open systems. It is to pair openness with strong safeguards, clear rules against malicious misuse, rigorous evaluation and rapid remediation.” — Nvidia

For OpenClaw — which runs with broad OS-level permissions by design — the alliance signals growing industry momentum around agent security standards. OpenClaw’s inclusion alongside traditional security giants like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks reflects how far the project has come since its viral launch in early 2026.

Full Partner List

The inaugural roster includes: Adobe, Cadence, Capital One, Cisco, Cloudera, Cloudflare, Cognition, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Dell, DoorDash, Elastic, HPE, Hugging Face, IBM, LangChain, Microsoft, NAVER, NetApp, Nous Research, OpenClaw, Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Reflection AI, Salesforce, SAP, SK Telecom, ServiceNow, Siemens, Snowflake, SpaceXAI, Synopsys, Thinking Machines Lab, TrendAI, and others.

Read Nvidia’s full announcement on the NVIDIA Blog.