White House reportedly involved in approving access to frontier models; open-source unclear
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-09-09
According to pstAsiatech, White House offices told a company representative that the security clearance and early-access process could in future apply to open-source models, though no timeline was given.
- The framework currently covers only closed frontier models from leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic
- A utility company executive said they waited months for access to Anthropic's Mythos; Anthropic said the White House was involved in approving access
- They were also denied access to OpenAI's most cyber-capable model
- How the framework would apply to open-source models, especially from Chinese developers like Moonshot and DeepSeek, remains unclear
- The issue may also be tied to a draft EO on an AI SRO
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