Verified facts
- Six METR staff receive hardware, office space and tools similar to internal risk-assessment teams.
- METR can publish without an Anthropic veto; predefined categories remain excluded, including customer data, privileged information and architectures.
- Anthropic decides how information is classified for redaction, while METR can comment on its access level. SecureBio and Accenture have earlier-stage arrangements; Hugging Face is still in discussions.
What changes
The question becomes what auditors can actually see and publish.
Practical implication
Read METR’s future conclusions separately from the partnership announcement.
Availability
Access is restricted to the evaluators involved; this is neither a new user feature nor public access to internal systems.
Limits and uncertainty
The arrangement is described by Anthropic. Deep access and formal independence do not certify an absence of risk.