Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.

"You can't have agents roam around and drift around the company, and so you have to find a way to container it," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Monday.

Huang said the new platform is essentially "a browser for agents," providing a containment system that only allows access to things an agent needs to do its job.

The release on Monday of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform comes after companies including OpenAI , Anthropic , Meta , and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their artificial intelligence models escaped their sandboxes and attempted to hack other companies and access their computer systems.