Open AI, Anthropic invite US scientists to experiment with frontier models

Khanchit Khirisutchalual/Getty Images Partnerships between AI companies and the US government are expanding, even as the future of AI safety and regulation remains unclear. On Friday, Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies brought 1,000 scientists together to test their latest models. The event, hosted by OpenAI and called an AI Jam Session, gave scientists across nine labs a day to use several models -- including OpenAI's o3-mini and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic's latest release -- to advance their research. Also: OpenAI finally unveils GPT-4.5. Here's what it can do In its own announcement, Anthropic said the session "offers a more authentic assessment of AI's potential to manage the complexities and nuances of scientific inquiry, as well as evaluate AI's ability to solve complex scientific challenges that typically require significant time and resources." The AI Jam Session is part of existing agreements between the US government, Anthropic, and OpenAI. In April, Anthropic p ... Read full article.