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Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Form Frontier AI Standards Authority

By Drooid · Sep 27, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are creating the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA).
SAFA could launch by the end of this year or early next year.
SAFA will support third-party pre-deployment testing, set incident-reporting rules, and define auditor qualifications.
A joint working group has met regularly since July to design SAFA.
Critics warn SAFA could marginalize open-source developers and cement the three firms’ market dominance.

History

Historical Context

In October 1994 Tim Berners-Lee left CERN and founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science, with DARPA and European Commission support. The W3C’s royalty-free, open-standard model expanded to 331 members and shaped standards like HTML 4. Today Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are creating the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, mirroring the W3C’s collaborative governance.

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Story summary

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are creating the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA).
SAFA could launch by the end of this year or early next year.
SAFA will support third-party pre-deployment testing, set incident-reporting rules, and define auditor qualifications.
A joint working group has met regularly since July to design SAFA.
Critics warn SAFA could marginalize open-source developers and cement the three firms’ market dominance.

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