Frontier AI
Frontier AI is defined by the Government Office for Science as ‘highly capable general-purpose AI models that can perform a wide variety of tasks and match or exceed the capabilities present in today’s most advanced models’. Currently, this primarily encompasses a few large language models including:
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Claude (Anthropic)
- Bard (Google)
See also article The long expanding list of AI tools for building planning, design, construction and management.
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