# Factory AI — Factory joins the Open Secure AI Alliance

- Company: Factory AI (factory.com)
- Announced: 2026-07-28
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://factory.com/news/open-secure-ai-alliance
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17863-factory-joins-the-open-secure-ai-alliance
- Subject: Droid

Factory is joining the Open Secure AI Alliance with NVIDIA and other members to help build and share open tools for securing software and AI agents. Security improves when defenders can inspect the underlying models, test their behavior, and build on shared research. We contribute to the open security ecosystem across our platform: open-weight secret detection, autonomous security research, and security controls built into Droid. Through the Open Secure AI Alliance, we bring this work into a broader community committed to sharing models, tools, and research in the open. Droid Shield 2.0 Droid Shield 2.0 uses two fine-tuned models to strengthen deterministic secret scanning. The Risk model reviews code the scanner did not flag, looking for potential secrets in the surrounding context. The Downgrade model reviews scanner hits after the candidate values have been masked, reducing false positives without exposing the detected secret to the model. Both models are based on Qwen 3.6 35B A3B and trained on Samsung's public CredData benchmark . …

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