External audit of a frontier model without taking custody of its weights or data is now demonstrated: in August 2026 a double-blind evaluation ran with model developer, benchmark owner and infrastructure provider unable to see each other's confidential inputs.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsAlternatives to Concentrated AI (DRC)

  culminating in the first double- blind evaluation of a frontier model, in which the model developer, the benchmark owner, and the infrastructure provider were three distinct parties

• groundsAlternatives to Concentrated AI (DRC)

  At present the frontier labs report on themselves

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