Nvidia builds an AI safety team to underwrite its open-model push
Nvidia is assembling an AI safety and security engineering team, hiring a distinguished engineer as "founding technical leader" plus a security research engineer, an evaluation engineer, and a senior manager. The team will evaluate AI agents before deployment and build AI-powered tools to patch software vulnerabilities.
One listing describes the team as "rooted in the firm belief that open-weight models, transparency, and broad scientific scrutiny are foundational to American AI leadership and cybersecurity defense." Jensen Huang used his first X post last month to urge US policymakers to back open models, arguing they "strengthen safety and cybersecurity." Safer open models mean broader adoption, which means more chip demand.
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