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# AI Seoul Summit: Frontier AI Safety Commitments

At the AI Seoul Summit (21–22 May 2024), 16 AI companies including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft and China's Zhipu AI signed Frontier AI Safety Commitments to publish safety frameworks with risk thresholds.

## Key facts
- Held 21–22 May 2024, co-hosted by South Korea and the UK
- 16 companies signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments
- Companies pledged to publish safety frameworks before the next summit
- Launched an international network of AI safety institutes

## What happened

The second global AI summit produced voluntary company commitments and a Seoul Declaration among governments.

## Why it matters

Led most frontier labs to publish responsible scaling / frontier safety frameworks, a key voluntary governance mechanism.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): in its training data
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [Frontier AI Safety Commitments, AI Seoul Summit 2024 (GOV.UK)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-safety-commitments-ai-seoul-summit-2024/frontier-ai-safety-commitments-ai-seoul-summit-2024) (gov.uk, official)
2. [Wikipedia: AI Seoul Summit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Seoul_Summit) (en.wikipedia.org, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

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