Anthropic's first outside safety checker is a consulting firm.
Anthropic said on Friday that staff from Accenture will work inside the company as embedded evaluators. They get employee-level access to training runs, deployment decisions and the people building the models. Each side plans to spend at least $1 billion over five years, and more evaluators are coming.
Why it mattersLabs have graded their own safety homework for years. This is the first deal that lets outsiders watch a model before it ships.
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