Jensen Huang: CrowdStrike Is Nvidia’s ‘No. 1 Cybersecurity Partner’

During an on-stage appearance Tuesday with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz at Fal.Con 2026, the Nvidia CEO praised the chip giant’s partnership with the cybersecurity vendor and discussed the launch of new CrowdStrike frontier AI models created in collaboration with Nvidia.

A set of newly unveiled CrowdStrike frontier AI models created in collaboration with Nvidia could make a massive difference in defending against intensifying cyberthreats powered by AI, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday.

During an on-stage appearance Tuesday with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz at the vendor’s Fal.Con 2026 conference, Huang said the launch of CrowdStrike’s new SafeMind cybersecurity models and harnesses was a “proud moment” for him and the chipmaking giant.

“It was great to see it come together,” Huang said during the conference, which is being held this week in Las Vegas. “[It’s an] incredibly visionary product from CrowdStrike.”

Without a doubt, “you are my No. 1 cybersecurity partner [and] my No. 1 cybersecurity provider,” Huang told Kurtz, which was met by applause from Fal.Con attendees. “And so it was essential that CrowdStrike has access to the best of Nvidia—and that we put our best minds together to create something that could be helpful to me [and] to be helpful to the world.”

The SafeMind agentic system, announced Tuesday, provides autonomous offensive and defensive AI models that are capable of helping cyber defense to rapidly identify and close real-world security gaps, according to CrowdStrike.

The SafeMind models work by continuously attacking and deploying protections within a digital replica of an organization’s environment, the company said, and the system also features newly designed agent harnesses.

SafeMind is ultimately the industry’s “first complete agentic system for cybersecurity, including the first frontier models [that are] purpose-built for defenders,” Kurtz said. “This isn’t a copilot that’s baked into someone else’s intelligence. It’s not a chatbot with a security skin. It is a frontier-class model built and trained by CrowdStrike—on our data—in partnership with Nvidia.”

SafeMind was created using Nvidia’s Nemotron open models and included intensive collaboration between teams at Nvidia and CrowdStrike over a number of months, Kurtz said.

Frequently, cybersecurity is seen as an asymmetrical battle, where “you hear about the attackers having the advantage and having capabilities, and defenders are step behind,” Kurtz said during the discussion with Huang. “But the thing that I love about security is that companies can come together in a community to actually solve a problem.”

With the creation of SafeMind, “in a number of months, we got it done together with just tremendous work from both teams and support,” Kurtz said. “And I think that’s what makes the cybersecurity community so special, is that we can come together and get stuff done like this.”

Huang said there’s no question that the “cybersecurity community, working transparently, working together cohesively, that is the asymmetric advantage the good guys have” over threat actors.

That aspect of cybersecurity is “something that most people underestimate. And so we’re a case in point,” Huang said, referencing the Nvidia-CrowdStrike partnership. “By working together transparently, you now are an AI company. You have a research lab. Our AI researchers love working with yours.”

Ultimately, SafeMind is a “completely brilliant” idea, the Nvidia CEO said.

From the details shared on SafeMind so far, it is clear that providing these types of frontier cybersecurity models—which can continuously test an organization’s environment and find gaps in close to real time—is something that will be hugely appealing to customers, according to Joseph Lentine, director of security partners at Somerset, N.J.-based SHI, No. 12 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2026.

Meanwhile, Huang’s characterization of the Nvidia-CrowdStrike partnership, and the fact that CrowdStrike is considered the foremost security vendor used by Nvidia, could also drive even more interest and confidence among customers in CrowdStrike’s platform, Lentine said.

“It is definitely reassuring to hear Jensen talk about their partnership” in those terms, he said, noting that SHI is also a major Nvidia partner.

All in all, the remarks speak volumes about CrowdStrike’s efficacy, Lentine noted, given that Nvidia “is definitely at the forefront of a lot of the market in general” amid the GPU-powered AI boom.

SafeMind is slated to operate within the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, while access to standalone models and harnesses will also be provided through CrowdStrike’s Project QuiltWorks frontier AI initiative, the company said.

Partners have certainly shown interest in using frontier models directly, in addition to leveraging the models through Falcon, Kurtz said.

“We have worked with a lot of partners in advance of this, and there is an interest in getting access to the models directly,” he said. “The models themselves, the harness, will be in the [Falcon] platform—and then obviously there would be a lot more things that you could do with it if you’re consuming the models directly.”