Singapore, Microsoft forge AI safety pact for frontier model testing
What's new: The work includes multilingual testing, agentic AI research and a white paper on access to advanced models.
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority and Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding on June 12 to expand work on AI safety and security as more powerful models raise cyber and misuse risks. The partnership covers technical research, information sharing and policy development. IMDA said the two sides will study evaluation methods, tools and benchmarks for frontier AI models, including multilingual safety testing and research on agentic AI. IMDA, the Singapore AI Safety Institute and Microsoft also plan to develop a policy framework on how governments and infrastructure operators can responsibly access advanced models, with the effort expected to produce a white paper.