Sixteen companies sign safety pledges at the AI Seoul Summit

Sixteen companies, among them OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral AI, signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the AI Seoul Summit on 21 May 2024, agreeing to publish safety frameworks and to hold back models whose severe risks they could not mitigate.

Why it mattered It widened voluntary international safety coordination beyond the group assembled at Bletchley Park six months earlier, without creating any binding obligation.