White House to Include Open AI Models in Secret Prerelease Safety Testing

Left-Hotel904 · reddit · 2026-08-13

The US government is preparing to bring open AI models under the White House's prerelease safety-testing framework, according to WIRED. Currently, the framework primarily covers frontier closed models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Sources indicate that open models could face a 30-day testing period before public release once they reach comparable capabilities. Officials are caught in a dilemma: excluding open models might create a government-approved advantage for closed labs, while including them could slow down US open-model development.

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