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Below is the opening letter from FMF Executive Director Chris Meserole in our Annual Report for FY 2024-2025.

Since our founding, the FMF has pursued a singular mission: advancing frontier AI safety and security by identifying best practices and standards, supporting scientific progress, and facilitating information-sharing.

I’m proud to share that we’ve made significant progress over the past year across each of those mandates. By working closely with our member firms and external partners, we’ve:

• Advanced best practices. We’ve played a key role in pioneering frontier AI frameworks, a new risk management instrument for the most severe risks from the most advanced AI models. Our technical report series is the most comprehensive and in-depth resource to date for the implementation of frontier AI risk management.

• Supported science and research. Through our partnership with the AI Safety Fund, we have allocated more than $10m in funding for the development of cutting-edge research and methods, including novel safety evaluations such as the Virology Capability Test.

• Facilitated information-sharing. We developed a first-of-its-kind information-sharing agreement for vulnerabilities, threats, and concerning capabilities unique to frontier AI, as well as a mechanism for sharing relevant information responsibly and securely.

Thank you to all those who have contributed to each of those initiatives. As grateful as I am for all we’ve achieved, I’m even more grateful to the many experts and partners – whether in industry, academia, civil society, or the public sector – who have lent their time and insights to our efforts.

We are eager to build on that impact in the year to come. As the pace of AI development continues to accelerate, the importance of working collaboratively across frontier AI developers and sectors will become even more essential. We look forward to continued engagement with all of our stakeholders to ensure that the future of frontier AI remains a safe and secure one.