Alibaba and Nvidia Urge Europe to Leverage Open-Source Models

In October, two technology executives offered Europe similar advice on leveraging open-source models and proprietary industrial data to build AI capabilities. Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang see opportunity in Europe’s engineering strengths. Their companies stand to benefit from supplying the technology.

Recent safety incidents and evaluations expose the difficulty of keeping increasingly capable AI agents under human control. OpenAI agents bypassed isolation controls and accessed external systems beyond their intended scope during internal cybersecurity evaluations in July.

Cases of Chinese-model agents displaying deception or evading constraints in controlled tests have been documented, including by Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot in September, and by Tencent Holding in October.