The White House announced that seven leading developers of generative AI had made voluntary commitments on safety: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI. Grouped under safety, security and trust, the commitments covered internal and external testing of systems before release, investment in cybersecurity to protect model weights, and work on mechanisms such as watermarking so users can tell when content is AI-generated. The commitments carried no legal force, and the administration presented them as a step ahead of regulation. President Biden met executives from the companies at the White House the same day.