China’s Ant, Baidu, Tencent collaborate with US firms OpenAI, Nvidia on publishing first global generative AI standards
- The GenAI standard was written by researchers from Nvidia and others, while the LLM guideline was penned by Ant employees
- As GenAI develops rapidly, tech companies have called for efforts to keep the technology safe for individuals and businesses

The companies on Tuesday released the “Generative AI Application Security Testing and Validation Standard” and the “Large Language Model Security Testing Method” during a side event at the United Nations Science and Technology Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, according to a statement from the event organiser, the non-profit World Digital Technology Academy (WDTA).
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The new GenAI standard was written by researchers from Nvidia, Facebook owner Meta Platforms and others, and reviewed by companies including Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft, Ant, Baidu and Tencent.
It provides a framework for testing and validating the security of GenAI applications, according to a copy of the document published on the WDTA website.