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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief.

At the close of the headlines today, I mentioned that the particular release sequence of the next upcoming models from Anthropic and OpenAI would go a long way to telling us what those labs think about where the state of the art is and implicitly where their competition with one another lies.

And that theme of the big labs revealing more about the state of the world as they see it is the subject of our main episode as well.

This episode is going to be anchored around two pieces of writing that came out, one each from Anthropic and OpenAI.

The first from Anthropic is called When AI Builds Itself.

It is a bit of a meditation, I guess you would say, around the state of AI development and what comes next.

The OpenAI document is a little bit more pointed.

It is a policy document called Democratic Governance of Frontier AI, a blueprint for a federal framework, but actually starts from a similar place of giving us a picture of where OpenAI thinks we are when it comes specifically to AI development.

Now to do a little bit of upfront contextualization, here's how Ethan Malek framed the Anthropic piece when AI builds itself.