EU Commission in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over AI models

The European Commission is in ongoing discussions with U.S. artificial intelligence giants OpenAI and Anthropic, a spokesperson said on Monday.

Spokesperson ‌Thomas ⁠Regnier ⁠said the Commission welcomed OpenAI's ​proactive engagement, including its intent to ​grant access to its new AI model. He added ​that the Commission ⁠has ‌had a four ​or ​five meetings with Anthropic ⁠though no discussions on a ​possible access to its ​AI models have taken place yet.

"With one (OpenAI), you have a company proactively offering to give access ‌to the company. With the other one (Anthropic), ​we have ​good ⁠exchanges though we're not at a stage where we can speculate ​on potential access or not", Regnier said during a daily press briefing.