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Google, Microsoft and xAI’s frontier AI to face national security testing

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For CIOs, the expanded testing signals massive risk in choosing unapproved models for enterprise deployment, The Futurum Group’s Nick Patience said.

Published May 5, 2026

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  • The Center for AI Standards and Innovation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has entered into agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI to conduct pre-deployment evaluations and research to assess the companies’ frontier AI capabilities.
  • The agreements build upon previously announced partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic with a goal of strengthening AI security. Terms of the agreement have been updated to include directives from CAISI, the Secretary of Commerce and President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan from last year.
  • The agreement allows the government to evaluate the partnered AI models before they become available to the public and will continue to assess models after deployment. “Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national...

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