… Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,” the post makes the case for a “standards body” modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA , which could test frontier models and develop best practices for their release. “Initially, Frontier Labs would voluntar… …
… In the past, the company had advertised the fact that large parts of Office 365 are powered by models from both OpenAI and Anthropic . While Microsoft still relies on those third-party models, it has also increasingly sought to stand up its own AI agents. …
… Earlier this year, Anthropic sparked no small amount of controversy when it announced that its new frontier cyber model, Claude Mythos, would only be released to a small coterie of partners through a program called Project Glasswing. …
… What’s more notable is who Microsoft is now targeting — the same companies it has long depended on for the AI models powering its own products. …
… Per the report, Adler and Pritzel played key roles in the development of Google’s Gemini model. …
… When it can see the model details — in about one-third of transactions — businesses are mostly spending on various flavors of Claude Opus, particularly the later versions. Opus is the model that preceded Mythos and is still openly available. …
… With this new implementation, the company is using an array of models. “Today, we are using a mixture of models to make this work. The actual writing is done by frontier models from both Anthropic and OpenAI. …
… That expansion faced a setback in June when Anthropic abruptly suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for non-U.S. entities, prompting some Indian developers and startup founders to consider alternatives to American AI models. …
… Late last week, President Donald Trump ordered an export control ban on Anthropic’s latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 , leading to the AI firm being forced to take the models down entirely to avoid noncompliance. …
… Nadella argues that if AI companies get to freely scrape the internet to train their models, it’s only fair that enterprises get to study — or “distill” — those models in return. “Distillation” is the practice of using a model’s own outputs to learn how it works and to train a new, often cheaper, m… …