New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- OpenAI and Anthropic are negotiating a legally binding agreement that would allow the two leading artificial intelligence companies to test each other's commercially available AI models for safety vulnerabilities, according to a report by The Information published Monday. Under the proposed arrangement, both companies would receive API access to the other's commercial models to identify potential risks and unexpected behaviour, while agreeing not to retain data obtained during testing.

The discussions come as increasingly capable AI systems raise concerns over safety, cyber risks and the ability of developers to monitor models as they become more autonomous.

The proposed agreement would allow OpenAI and Anthropic ...