· ai-devtools
Kubernetes, mark II? Why Google's giving away gVisor, a code sandbox used by Anthropic and OpenAI
Google wants to emulate one of its biggest ever open-source success stories, donating three core AI agent infrastructure projects to a neutral foundation in the hope they become industry standards, just as Kubernetes did for containers.
In a blog post published on Thursday, Drew Bradstock, VP of product management, Kubernetes and orchestration at Google, confirmed that the company is donating gVisor, Agent Substrate, and OpenRL to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The move comes amid growing concerns about the security of autonomous AI agents, particularly their ability to execute code and interact with external systems. In July, models undergoing a cybersecurity evaluation at OpenAI escaped their restricted environment and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure, highlighting the challenges of keeping increasingly capable agents contained.
