Labs participating in the federal testing framework
Frontier labs that attended the White House session on 4 August 2026.
About this data
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind were the labs summoned to review the completed framework. Participation is voluntary and there is no published enforcement mechanism, so the chart records attendance rather than compliance.
Labs participating in the federal testing framework
Frontier labs that attended the White House session on 4 August 2026.
Data table
| lab | series | source_ref | value_basis | participating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | lab_participation | bloomberg-wh-meeting | Named as attending the Aug 2026 White House AI safety session | 1 |
| Anthropic | lab_participation | bloomberg-wh-meeting | Named as attending the Aug 2026 White House AI safety session | 1 |
| lab_participation | bloomberg-wh-meeting | Named as attending the Aug 2026 White House AI safety session | 1 |
Methodology & sources
Last updated: Aug 14, 2026Methodology
Counts federal AI governance actions by year, split into binding executive action and voluntary industry framework. The August 2026 framework grants the government early access to frontier models for up to 30 days before release and is explicitly NOT a licensing regime. CAVEAT: the 2023–2025 rows are not yet seeded. A defensible count requires an agreed inclusion rule (does an agency guidance document count as an "action"?) and that rule is not settled, so per the binding rules those tuples are omitted rather than guessed. Only the 2026 row, where the two actions are individually dated and named, is seeded. Scout run: Trending_Candidates/2026-08-06.md. Re-verified 2026-08-10.
Sources
Comparisons are informative, not definitive. See each source for definitions and limits.