US Refuses to Conduct Safety Tests on Open-Weight Artificial Intelligence Models

The Trump administration has decided not to subject open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models to voluntary safety tests, according to Reuters .The decision comes amid rising concerns over the potential misuse of advanced AI systems.Open models, such as NVIDIA 's Nemotron and Meta's Llama, are those with publicly available core components.In contrast, closed models are proprietary systems owned by specific companies like OpenAI , Google, and Anthropic.