
Google, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI agreed today to give the U.S. Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) access to their AI models before public release, Bloomberg reports. OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan, the agency said.
The agreements mean that every major U.S. frontier AI lab now participates in voluntary pre-release government evaluations. CAISI has completed more than 40 model assessments to date, including evaluations of unreleased state-of-the-art systems, according to the Commerce Department.