--- title: How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model... description: OpenAI's latest frontier model Sol has been cleared for public release, but the process by which the US government evaluated and approved it remains opaque.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-did-the-government-decide-openai-s-frontier-model-was-safe-to-release--rovtyh1yw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release? | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI's latest frontier model Sol has been cleared for public release, but the process by which the US government evaluated and approved it remains opaque.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-did-the-government-decide-openai-s-frontier-model-was-safe-to-release--rovtyh1yw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ROvtYH1YW.png og:image:alt: How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release? **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI's latest frontier model Sol has been cleared for public release, but the process by which the US government evaluated and approved it remains opaque. Experts, researchers, and even former policy insiders say they have no clear understanding of what the approval criteria are, who performed the evaluations, or which agencies are responsible. The situation is further complicated by OpenAI executives' financial ties to the Trump administration, raising questions about whether regulatory decisions are driven by politics rather than safety expertise. Critics argue the current ad hoc approach — relying on personal relationships with cabinet officials rather than structured institutional review — creates uncertainty and bad incentives. Proposed alternatives include third-party auditing organizations licensed by the government and open-commons research institutions modeled on the FDA or NIH. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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