Our latest investment in open source security for the AI era

Mar 17, 2026

With a new funding commitment for open source security and helpful tools for defenders, we're shifting from identifying open source security threats to solving them.

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Billions of people rely on an Internet built on open source software — which is software anyone can use — but that reliance only works if the software beneath it is secure. That’s why for over 20 years, Google has championed open source by supporting the developers who secure it — fueling initiatives like Google Summer of Code and bug-hunting programs that discover and fix more vulnerabilities.

Today, as a founding member of the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega Project, we’re pledging $12.5 million collectively with Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft/GitHub and OpenAI to further invest in the stability and security of the open source community. The funding, managed by Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF, will help maintainers stay ahead of a new generation of AI-driven threats, move security beyond vulnerability discovery to actually deploying fixes, and put advanced security tools directly into maintainers’ hands, to turn a flood of AI-generated findings into fast action.