The debate over closed versus open artificial intelligence models is growing, after several recent incidents stoked debate over the power of AI agents to operate rationally without human direction. 

In July, around 700 OpenAI agents appeared to autonomously hack into Hugging Face, a technology company recently acquired by Nvidia. It was confirmed on Friday that months before, OpenAI agents did the same in May with another technology company called RubyGems. Those are far from the only such incidents, raising concern about what could happen when the stakes are bigger, and triggering renewed conversation on the pros and cons of open AI models, which can be downloaded and customized by users and are favored by Nvidia and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and closed AI models, whose underlying blueprint remains under firm control by the owner and are used by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and others.