EU's ENISA and Joint Research Centre begin testing Chinese open-weight AI models
The EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA and the Commission's Joint Research Centre have started testing open AI models from China, Politico reported, with three EU officials confirming the previously undisclosed work. The JRC models are part of a broader study that also covers leading American and European systems, examining capabilities, shortcomings and risks, while ENISA is testing a couple of Chinese open-weight models and already has access to advanced systems from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. The Commission said it did not request special access or licences from the Chinese developers, runs the models on its own secure computers, and does not plan to use them in daily work.
It shows Europe weighing the availability and risks of both US and Chinese AI suppliers while lacking a top-tier model of its own.
The EU’s cyber agency, ENISA, and the Commission’s own science service, the Joint Research Centre, have started testing open AI models from China, Politico reported.
Three EU officials confirmed the work, the first time either body has spoken about it.
These open-weight models are released in full, so anyone can download, run, and study them. Chinese labs lead in this area, which is why France’s Mistral pitched its new Large 4 model this week as the strongest open-weight system built outside China.
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