Nvidia announces Open Agent Safety Platform & $150 billion buyback addition.

There were two major, industry impacting announcements made by Nvidia in last 24 hours. One was the announcement of $150 billion boost for shares buyback program (a record), and the other one is announcement of Open Agent Safety Platform with several partners behind it (including Anthropic.

My POV. Announced on September 28, Open Agent Safety Platform is a master stroke in GTM strategy. Amidst (AI security related) high tensions in the market, Nvidia announcing this program shows the position Nvidia is in and how high the stakes are. It’s clear that this step will strengthen Nvidia’s moat further.

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform consists of NVIDIA OpenShell open source software and the NVIDIA Sentry reference system design that enables full-stack governance and control across software and the hardware, compute and robotics systems that run agents.

More on Open Agent Safety Platform here: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/open-agent-safety-platform

More on shares buyback program (announced on September 28) here: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-a-150-billion-share-repurchase-authorization-increase

Third big AI related news coming for m Silicon Valley was AMD acquiring World Labs for $8.2 Billion.