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SSI and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership under which NVIDIA made an equity investment in SSI and gave it access to the next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, allowing SSI to increase its compute by an order of magnitude. The two will also collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA's current and future compute platforms, drawing on SSI's research. NVIDIA stated it entered the partnership after obtaining rare access to SSI's closely guarded research. Jensen Huang cited Sutskever's foundational contributions beginning with AlexNet; Sutskever said SSI has 'research that is worthy of scaling up' and described the Vera Rubin commitment as a 'big bet'. Neither primary source disclosed a figure — Reuters reported, citing an unnamed source, that the stake is approximately USD 5bn. That amount is NOT confirmed by either party and is recorded here as a report, not a fact. SSI's own updates page datelines the agreement 26 July 2026; both companies announced it publicly on 27 July 2026. SSI remains private and pre-product after roughly two years in stealth.

NVIDIA launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on Jul 27, 2026 with 27-37 founding members including Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir, Cisco, IBM, Dell, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, Adobe, Hugging Face and the Linux Foundation, to develop and share open tools for securing AI systems. It follows a Hugging Face security incident and reflects an industry push to keep open-source AI viable for cyber defense. Notably absent: OpenAI and Anthropic.