H2O.ai brings its experience securing agentic AI for customers in highly regulated industries, where controlling what an agent can access and do matters most.
H2O.ai, the sovereign enterprise AI platform for predictive, generative and agentic AI, with built-in observability and governance, announced that it has joined NVIDIA and other industry leaders in the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry initiative to develop and share open technologies, techniques and tools that strengthen the security of software and AI agents.
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H2O.ai also backs the principles outlined in the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, including the role of open models in strengthening safety, cybersecurity, innovation and AI sovereignty.
Together, these efforts reflect a shared belief that open AI is important not only for innovation and competition, but also for security and control. Open weights give organizations greater visibility into the models they use and the freedom to adapt and run them on their own infrastructure. Open security tools extend that control across the broader AI system, including agent identity, permissions, guardrails, evaluation and auditability.
“Open source is about freedom, not just free. Sovereign AI is only possible with open weights and distributed shared philosophy of innovation. At H2O.ai, we recognized that AI is far too important to not be open and was founded with decades of innovation and community building with open source. All of our math and algorithms and several SLMs like H2O-Danube and H2O-Mississippi have been open with contributions every year since inception. Open weights models and open ecosystems unleash the juggernaut of innovation and usher abundance by unlocking human potential and the possibilities for AI in science, math, health and AI for Good.
Every nation needs to be an AI nation. Every organization, enterprise, and every government needs to be AI-native and make AI their own, to govern, and learn from the feedback loops of continuous use of AI,” said Sri Ambati, Founder and CEO of H2O.ai.
As AI agents gain access to sensitive data, applications and critical workflows, security must address more than whether a model is open or closed. Protecting these systems requires controls across the full agent stack, as well as the ability for defenders to test, adapt and strengthen those controls.
Through its participation in the Open Secure AI Alliance, H2O.ai will work with NVIDIA and other members to advance open approaches to AI security and help organizations deploy AI systems they can trust, govern and control.
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