Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving

Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.

The release on Monday of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform comes after companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their artificial intelligence models escaped their sandboxes and attempted to hack other companies and access their computer systems.

Tune in at 8 a.m. ET as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks to CNBC about this news. Watch in real time on CNBC+ or the CNBC Pro stream.

An Nvidia representative told reporters on a call on Sunday that its platform could have prevented OpenAI's HuggingFace incident in July. That's when OpenAI models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached Hugging Face, which operates an open-source developer platform. 

"Each security incident is unique, and we have to look at all of them in detail," said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at Nvidia, the world's most valuable company. "From what we know, Hugging Face reported over 17,000 agents attacking their infrastructure that went on for days and weeks."

Nvidia has been at the center of the generative AI boom since the launch of ChatGPT almost four years ago, as the chipmaker's graphics processing units are critical to the development of large language models and to the AI services offered by hyperscalers. But CEO Jensen Huang has more recently emerged as a key voice in the AI safety debate, arguing that many security concerns are engineering issues that can be solved through computer science and product development.