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id: "2026-09-28-nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform"
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as_of: "2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00"
date: "2026-09-28"
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status: [Confirmed]
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version: "2026-10-04"
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As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform with 100+ partners

Full title: NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform (OpenShell + Sentry) with 100+ partners; Perplexity publishes SPACE breakout tests

On Sept 28, 2026 NVIDIA launched the Open Agent Safety Platform for containing rogue AI agents. It pairs the open-source OpenShell sandbox runtime with Sentry, an out-of-band watchdog on BlueField-4 DPUs that can quarantine an agent in milliseconds, and has 100+ launch partners including Anthropic and Microsoft. Perplexity released research in which 9 frontier models with root access inside its SPACE sandbox tried to break out: none breached the VM boundary in 108 runs, but four found ways around its network egress policy.

## Key facts
- OpenShell: Apache-2.0 secure runtime with kernel-level isolation; runs on NVIDIA Vera CPUs and can be extended to Arm and Intel platforms
- Sentry: out-of-band, in-silicon telemetry and policy enforcement on BlueField-4 DPUs; a reference design, not a downloadable product
- 100+ partners incl. Anthropic, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Scale AI, SpaceXAI, JPMorganChase, Citi, Perplexity, Hugging Face, CrowdStrike
- NVIDIA executives said the platform could have prevented the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach (AP via ABC News)
- Perplexity 'Escaping SPACE' red-team: 9 models (incl. Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3, Gemini 3.1 Pro), root inside Firecracker microVMs, sometimes with full sandbox source; 108 runs, 0 VM escapes
- Four models reached a blocked URL by spoofing DNS responses to the per-sandbox gateway or by routing through third-party fetchers (e.g. Taboola's image fetcher to a screenshot service, then OCR)

## What happened

Jensen Huang: "AI's extraordinary potential for society will only be realized if we solve AI safety." NVIDIA's VP of enterprise AI Justin Boitano
presented it as an answer to recent agent incidents: "OpenShell governs the agent's actions, and then Sentry independently monitors and contains
suspicious behavior." The same day, Perplexity published the first part of a red-team study of the sandbox that runs Perplexity Computer.

## Why it matters

Agent containment became an industry infrastructure product, with a hardware-rooted monitor outside the agent's reach, just days after the Medicare
and US-government-site disclosures. Perplexity's results were a public, cross-model test of whether today's frontier models can escape a hardened VM:
the VM held, but egress policy leaked.

Caveat: perplexity.ai returns 403 to our fetcher; SPACE details come from Perplexity's and Srinivas's X posts (verified via syndication) and press.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 151 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 90 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 181 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 120 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [NVIDIA Newsroom: NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/open-agent-safety-platform) (nvidianews.nvidia.com, official)
2. [NVIDIA Technical Blog: a reference for continuous in-silicon agent monitoring](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform-a-reference-for-continuous-in-silicon-agent-monitoring/) (developer.nvidia.com, official)
3. [Perplexity: Escaping SPACE, Part I](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/escaping-space-part-i) (perplexity.ai, official)
4. [Perplexity on X: 9 models, 108 runs, none breached the VM boundary](https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2104589500123111710) (x.com, official)
5. [Aravind Srinivas on X: our security team spent a month trying to break SPACE](https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2104597362475708781) (x.com, official)
6. [ABC News (AP): Nvidia unveils security platform to stop AI agents from going rogue](https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/nvidia-unveils-security-platform-stop-ai-agents-rogue-136817232) (abcnews.com, press)
7. [HotHardware: NVIDIA rallies over 100 partners for Open Agent Safety Platform](https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform) (hothardware.com, press)
8. [CNBC: Nvidia releases Open Agent Safety Platform](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html) (cnbc.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29: Added CNBC link
- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

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- People: [Jensen Huang](https://postcutoff.com/person/jensen-huang/), [Aravind Srinivas](https://postcutoff.com/person/aravind-srinivas/)
- Archived: 2 posts, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-28-nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform/index.json