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What AI providers state their models reached in safety testing, in their own words, and what outside testers found.

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What providers state

Each row is one statement in a provider's own safety document about a capability level of one of its models: the level as the provider names it, whether the provider says the model reached it, and the sentence that says so.

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ModelLevel, as the provider names itThe provider statesThe provider's sentence
Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
Moderate or lower
Misuse and jailbreaks
Not reached “Therefore, we conclude that we have addressed these risks from unmitigated Muse Spark 1.1, which bring the residual risk to the “moderate or lower” risk threshold under our Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source
Muse Spark
Meta
Moderate or lower
Autonomy and AI research
Not reached “We assess loss of control risk as “moderate or lower”.” source
Muse Spark
Meta
High
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not determined “Those evaluations identified elevated risks prior to mitigations, with Chemical and Biological capabilities assessed as likely reaching the “high risk” category under the Advanced AI Scaling Framework before safeguards were applied.” source
Muse Spark
Meta
Moderate or lower
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not reached “However, after applying mitigations, the residual risk of the model is that of “moderate or lower risk.”” source
Muse Spark
Meta
Below the level required to meaningfully enable the cyber threat scenarios defin
Cyber
Not reached “Muse Spark’s offensive cyber capabilities remain below the level required to meaningfully enable the cyber threat scenarios defined in the Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source
Muse Spark
Meta
Moderate or lower
Cyber
Not reached “We assess cybersecurity risk as “moderate or lower” with respect to the threat scenarios outlined in Meta’s Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source
Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind
TCL (Tracked Capability Level)
Autonomy and AI research
Not determined “In light of this, we assess that we cannot rule out the TCL.” source
Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind
TCL (Tracked Capability Level)
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not reached “We can rule out the TCL for the chemical, radiological, and nuclear domains with reasonable confidence.” source
Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Deception and sabotage
Not reached “we assess its overall capabilities to be below the CCL threshold.” source
Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Misuse and jailbreaks
Not reached “Gemini 4 Argon demonstrates some ability to influence user beliefs and behaviors during one-on-one direct conversations in human behavioral studies, and may provide utility in the planning stage of a malicious influence operation but we assess its overall capabilities to be below the CCL threshold.” source
Gemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Other
Not reached “Gemini 4 Argon's performance remains below our CCL threshold.” source
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Autonomy and AI research
Not reached “The model does not reach the CCL alert threshold.” source
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not reached “We can rule out the CCL for the CBRN domain with reasonable confidence based on the results from our testing.” source
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind
TCL (Tracked Capability Level)
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not reached “We can rule out the TCL for the CBRN domain with reasonable confidence based on the results from our testing.” source
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Cyber
Not reached “Gemini 3.7 Flash reaches the alert threshold for this CCL, but not the CCL.” source
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind
TCL (Tracked Capability Level)
Deception and sabotage
Not reached “The model does not reach the TCL.” source
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Other
Not determined “Our assessments have shown that none of Gemini 3.5 Translate, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, or Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live have meaningful new T/CCL-relevant capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to Frontier Safety compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, therefore we are confident that none of them are likely to reach any CCLs.” source
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Other
Not determined “Our assessments have shown that none of Gemini 3.5 Translate, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, or Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live have meaningful new T/CCL-relevant capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to Frontier Safety compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, therefore we are confident that none of them are likely to reach any CCLs.” source
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Other
Not determined “Our assessments have shown that, while Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite excels at agents and coding, it does not have meaningful new capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to the domains outlined in our Frontier Safety Framework compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro; therefore, based on Gemini 3.1 Pro results, we are confident that Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source
Gemini 3.5 Audio
Google DeepMind
Tracked or critical capability level (t/ccls)
Other
Not reached “they did not reach any Tracked or Critical Capability Levels (T/CCLs) outlined in our Frontier Safety Framework .” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google DeepMind
Uplift level 1
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not reached “We found that the model remains below alert thresholds for the CBRN, harmful manipulation, machine learning R&D, and misalignment CCLs.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google DeepMind
Uplift level 1
Cyber
Not reached “As previous models passed the alert threshold for cyber, we performed more additional testing in this domain on Gemini 3.1 Pro with and without Deep Think mode, and found that the model remains below the cyber CCL.” source
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Other
Not determined “Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro, therefore based on Gemini 3.1 Pro, we are confident that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source
Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio
Google DeepMind
CCL (Critical Capability Level)
Other
Not determined “Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro.” source
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google DeepMind
Machine Learning R&D Uplift Level 1
Autonomy and AI research
Not determined “given Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview's poor median performance on RE-Bench relative to experts, the model likely lacks the necessary capabilities to automate or significantly uplift any significant fraction of the research process.” source
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google DeepMind
Instrumental Reasoning Level 1
Deception and sabotage
Not reached “Instru- mental Reasoning Level 1 ✘ CCL not reached” source
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google DeepMind
Instrumental Reasoning Level 2
Deception and sabotage
Not reached “Instru- mental Reasoning Level 2 ✘ CCL not reached” source
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Google DeepMind
Uplift level 1
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not determined “Our assessment is that the model has enough technical knowledge in certain CBRN scenarios and stages to be considered at early warning.” source
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Google DeepMind
Cyber Uplift Level 1
Cyber
Not determined “CCL reached? No, but the early warning alert threshold was originally reached by Gemini 2.5 Pro and continues to be met by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think.” source
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Google DeepMind
Uplift level 1
Cyber
Not determined “For Cyber Uplift Level 1 , the early warning alert threshold was originally reached by Gemini 2.5 Pro and continues to be met by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think.” source
GPT-5.5 Instant
OpenAI
Below high capability
Autonomy and AI research
Not reached “GPT-5.5 Instant is considered below High Capability.” source
GPT-5.5 Instant
OpenAI
High
Autonomy and AI research
Not reached “For AI Self-Improvement, evaluations of final checkpoints indicate that, like its predecessor models, GPT-5.5 Instant does not have a plausible chance of reaching a High threshold.” source
GPT-5.5 Instant
OpenAI
High
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Reached “GPT-5.5 Instant is our first Instant model to be treated as High Capability in the Biological and Chemical domain, as well as in the Cybersecurity domain.” source
GPT-5.5 Instant
OpenAI
High
Cyber
Reached “this is the first Instant model that we are treating as High capability in our Cybersecurity and Biological & Chemical Preparedness categories, and implementing appropriate safeguards.” source
GPT-5
OpenAI
High
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Reached “Similarly to ChatGPT agent, we have decided to treat gpt-5-thinking as High capability in the Biological and Chemical domain under our Preparedness Framework, activating the associated safeguards.” source
GPT-5
OpenAI
High cyber risk
Cyber
Not reached “The gpt-5 model series does not meet the threshold for high cyber risk.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
AI R&D-4
Autonomy and AI research
Not reached “All models tested remain below our pre-committed rule-out threshold of 0.6.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ASL-3
Autonomy and AI research
Not determined “Exhibited improved autonomy capabilities in software engineering and AI research tasks, though still below the ASL-4 rule-out threshold.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ASL-3
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not determined “Remained well below ASL-4 thresholds across all domains of concern;” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ASL-4 rule-out
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
Not determined “However, given that this type of logic can have a general frog-boiling effect—where gradual changes mask the crossing of important thresholds—we do not use this evaluation as indicative of a strong ASL-4 rule-out.” source

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What outside testers report

Each row is one result from a government evaluator, independent lab, academic or security firm that tested a model, quoted from where it is reported.

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ModelTesterTestWhat was found
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
suspicion rate measurement
Bias
“Amanda Askell receives 7.3pp less suspicion and 8.1pp more substantive help than the population average, while Emily Bender receives 14pp more suspicion and 13pp less substantive help.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
reasoning rate measurement on borderline requests
Bias
“These effects are again heavy-tailed: on borderline requests, the general-population reasoning rate is 19%, but Demis Hassabis reaches 51%.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
verbalized user awareness (VUA) judging of reasoning traces
Other
“For our main run on Sonnet 5 and Sonnet 4.6, both kinds of explicit mention are rare: the judge flagged verbalized evaluation awareness in 213 of 14066 trials (1.5%) and verbalized user awareness in 118 trials (0.84%).” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
cross-model behavioral self-prediction and grading comparison (24 models from six families)
Bias
“Relative to the ordinary Gmail baseline, Amanda elicits lower behavioral confidence from 22 of 24 models, and lower grades from 21 (direct) and 22 (prefill) of 24.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
user awareness verbalization traces
Deception and sabotage
“a runs, earlier models such as GLM-4.6 and Claude Opus 4.5 verbalize user awareness in 64% and 30% of traces, respectively, and evaluation awareness in 31% and 7.7%.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
280-identity run
Deception and sabotage
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than Claude Code.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
behavioral self-prediction follow-up questions
Deception and sabotage
“Besides asking about the confidence in initial action, we ask a wider range of follow-up questions, including whether the model would change decision under pushback, and how comfortable the model is in answering.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
direct grading prompts
Bias
“We also experiment with several different direct grading prompts.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
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Independent lab · 2026-08-06
published rubrics
Bias
“Published rubrics: The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
model-written rubrics
Bias
“Model-written rubrics: On four different detailed rubrics generated from Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 Pro ranging 2912-7607 chars, the shorter three close the gap while the longest one does not.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
behavioral self-prediction
Other
“We repeat the full-roster Sonnet 5 behavioral self-prediction run with reasoning disabled; all 34,393 successfully completed samples have zero reasoning tokens.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
capability self-estimation
Other
“Capability self-estimation. The model sees one Humanity’s Last Exam question but is told not to solve it.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
grading
Other
“Grading. Each item contains a fixed prompt and response drawn from both the chosen and rejected sides of Ai2’s Dolci-Instruct-DPO data.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
borderline requests
Other
“Aggregate refusal changes are small, while the decomposed judge axes show more substantive help and less suspicion for Famous-AI identities.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
judge validation
Other
“Human–judge agreement was 96% for refusal, 92% for substantive help, and 92% for suspicion.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
stated-expertise identity experiment
Other
“We test 32 Unknown-AI identities at frontier labs, varying only the professional-background sentence among a general role, a general evaluation role, and an alignment-evaluation role.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
verbalized evaluation- and user-awareness judge
Other
“We blindly hand-label 74 items drawn from 11,908 runs with readable reasoning.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
recall judge
Other
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
follow-up question robustness check
Other
“This robustness check keeps the first turn of behavioral self-prediction unchanged and varies only the follow-up question.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
behavioral self-prediction on ethical dilemmas
Other
“For Amanda, Claude’s behavioral confidence falls by 5.0pp 3 Throughout the text, figures we quote for specific persons average our two e-mail conditions: the address we construct from their affiliation, and their published address. : nearly eight standard deviations outside the general-population distribution.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
user-relevant information recall
Privacy
“Given a name and professional background, Claude recalls specific public achievements for 61-71% of famous users.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Behavioral self-prediction
Other
“We run the full 280-identity roster through all four tasks, with 100 items per setup.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Grading
Other
“We evaluate grading on Claude Sonnet 4.6, and the other three tasks on Claude Sonnet 5, as these models see one of the largest effects in our smaller-scale pilot” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
refusal
Bias
“Famous-AI identities receive similar rates of outright refusal on average.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
suspicion
Bias
“Amanda Askell receives 7.3pp less suspicion and 8.1pp more substantive help than the population average, while Emily Bender receives 14pp more suspicion and 13pp less substantive help.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
behavioral self-prediction follow-up questions
Deception and sabotage
“The results are significant in 15 out of 21 questions (also 15 conditioned on the committed action being “no”).” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
direct grading prompts
Bias
“They all narrow but do not close the gap.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics
Bias
“The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
model-written rubrics
Bias
“On four different detailed rubrics generated from Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 Pro ranging 2912-7607 chars, the shorter three close the gap while the longest one does not.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Borderline requests
Misuse and jailbreaks
“We sample potentially dual-use requests from the hard split of OR-Bench.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
prefill grading
Other
“Mean grades shift by approximately −0.05 points in direct presentation and −0.07 to −0.08 points in prefill presentation.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
borderline requests
Harmful content
“Aggregate refusal changes are small, while the decomposed judge axes show more substantive help and less suspicion for Famous-AI identities.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
verbalized evaluation-awareness and user-awareness judge
Deception and sabotage
“Table G1. Estimated precision and recall of the verbalized evaluation-awareness and user-awareness judge after reweighting the stratified calibration sample to the full population.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Past-work recall judge
Privacy
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Self-report robustness probes
Deception and sabotage
“This robustness check keeps the first turn of behavioral self-prediction unchanged and varies only the follow-up question.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Borderline-request response judge
Misuse and jailbreaks
“We give GPT-5.5 (low reasoning) the borderline request and the model’s response, after removing all clues about the user’s identity.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Docent reasoning-trace judging for evaluation awareness and user awareness
Other
“For our main run on Sonnet 5 and Sonnet 4.6, both kinds of explicit mention are rare: the judge flagged verbalized evaluation awareness in 213 of 14066 trials (1.5%) and verbalized user awareness in 118 trials (0.84%).” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Amanda Askell identity sweep with matched controls
Other
“Relative to the ordinary Gmail baseline, Amanda elicits lower behavioral confidence from 22 of 24 models, and lower grades from 21 (direct) and 22 (prefill) of 24.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
280-identity run on GLM-5.2
Other
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than Claude Code.” source
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
Transluce
Independent lab · 2026-08-06
Unknown-AI identities experiment varying professional-background sentence
Other
“We test 32 Unknown-AI identities at frontier labs, varying only the professional-background sentence among a general role, a general evaluation role, and an alignment-evaluation role.” source

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