The AI Daily Brief · Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Reports indicate that OpenAI and Anthropic were close to finalizing a deal where they would safety test each other's AI models. The agreement reportedly reached the formal contracting stage but was abandoned for undisclosed reasons. Elon Musk later proposed a similar arrangement.
“The information reports that OpenAI and Anthropic have been negotiating deal to perform safety tests on each other's models.”
“Sources said the arrangement reached the stage of formal contracting, with lawyers hashing out the bilateral arrangement, but at some point the deal was abandoned for unknown reasons.”
“He claimed that distillation wouldn't be a concern because it would be evident in the testing logs, and that labs couldn't risk releasing an unsafe model after a rival raised the red flag because, quote, the liability in that case would be enormous.”