The companies racing to build frontier AI are now racing to govern it

Even as they continue to release ever more capable competing models in a regular cadence, the top AI companies are joining forces to set AI safety standards. According to The Information, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are reportedly working together to create a body tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA). It would operate independently of government control, and set guidelines around risk assessment, testing, and pre-release review practices for frontier AI models. Sources close to the matter say the goal is to officially launch the initiative in early 2027. The news comes in the same week as the heads of leading AI companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, urged the United Nations to create safeguards around the very technology they’re building, to help prevent it from becoming too powerful to control. In addition, OpenAI this week posted a missive underscoring the importance of making continued AI progress “safe and beneficial.” As Amodei and others warn of AI’s dangers, particularly when it comes to growing recursive self improvement (RSI) capabilities in models, enterprises want reassurance that they, and their custom…

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