The Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform is aimed at bolstering “AI security from agent testing to deployment,” the release said. The need for the tool is underscored by a series of security incidents in which AI agents from companies like OpenAI and Google managed to hack outside websites.
“AI’s extraordinary potential for society will only be realized if we solve AI safety,” Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in the release. “As we continue to discover the frontier of AI capabilities, we must accelerate discovery at the frontier of AI safety. Safety and security require full-stack engineering. Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform brings together industry, researchers and public-sector organizations to share best practices, align on evaluation methods and foster international cooperation. Together, we can raise the bar for global AI safety.”
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The new platform includes Nvidia OpenShell secure runtime software that establishes boundaries for agents running on central processing units (CPUs), according to the release.
“As agents take on more work across more systems, enterprises need an enforceable boundary outside of the model and agent harness,” the release said. “Now broadly available, OpenShell provides a secure runtime boundary for controlling how autonomous AI agents execute tasks across open and closed models.”
OpenShell works in tandem with Nvidia Vera, the first CPU designed specifically for agentic AI, according to the release. Together, OpenShell and Vera let agents operate securely while conducting their work as fast as possible.
Speaking to reporters before Monday’s announcement, Justin Boitano, Nvidia’s vice president of enterprise AI, said the technology would have prevented a hack by OpenAI agents on the AI company Hugging Face in July had it been available at the time.
“From what we know, this new security platform could have stopped the breach,” said Boitano, per a Monday Bloomberg report.
Huang has said AI security concerns are an engineering challenge, not a reason to impose more regulations or launch a worldwide safety campaign, the report said. He joined President Donald Trump in countering arguments by some AI developers that the technology could bring about human extinction, while also maintaining that AI needs to be rigorously safety-tested.
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