# CrowdStrike and Nvidia Launch SafeMind, Pairing an Attacking Model With a Defending One

CrowdStrike says its defensive model beat leading frontier models on internal evaluations while cutting operating cost by 99 percent, a figure the company has not opened to outside testing.

- Published: 2026-09-03T06:26:17.363Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-03/crowdstrike-and-nvidia-launch-safemind-pairing-an-attacking
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-crowdstrike-fal-con-2026/)

At CrowdStrike's Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and CrowdStrike chief executive George Kurtz announced SafeMind, an agentic security system built on Nvidia's open Nemotron models. The design runs an off…

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