How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

OpenAI is rolling out its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) stressed out the White House enough to that it was briefly banned from public access.

So how did these models get the ok for release? Short answer: Nobody’s quite sure.