AI BriefingMajor AI Companies' Safety Index Released
Key point
In the AI Safety Index released by the Future of Life Institute, Anthropic recorded the highest score with a C+.
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According to the 2026 Summer AI Safety Index released by the Future of Life Institute, researchers from UC Berkeley, Oxford, and University of Montreal evaluated 9 AI companies across 37 indicators.
Evaluation Results by Major Company:
- Anthropic: C+ (2.66/4.0)
- OpenAI: C (2.28)
- Google DeepMind: C (2.01)
- Meta: D+ (1.32)
- Alibaba Cloud: D- (0.87)
- xAI / DeepSeek / Mistral: F
The researchers pointed out that AI companies are withdrawing safety commitments they had previously made. Red line thresholds that were supposed to trigger a halt in development are being quietly removed, and military AI bans that Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and others had in place are also being reversed.
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