Factory Joins Open Weights and American AI Leadership

Factory announced that it has signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter alongside Microsoft, NVIDIA, and more than 230 other organizations, arguing that U.S. AI leadership depends on an open ecosystem rather than concentration among a small number of closed models. The company describes itself as model-agnostic, supporting both open and closed providers, and highlights its role in developing AGENTS.md, an open format intended for AI agents. It also cites security-focused open-source work, including releasing components of its Droid Shield 2.0 secret-scanning models, auditing open-source projects through its Automated Security Review program, disclosing CVE-2026-42876 in External Secrets Operator, and joining the NVIDIA-launched Open Secure AI Alliance. Factory emphasizes that open models should be accompanied by safeguards such as threat modeling, red teaming, sandboxing, and human approval for high-risk actions under its Safe Autonomy Readiness Policy.

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