AIUC raises $40 million to audit frontier AI models

AIUC argues that uncertainty over risk now slows AI adoption more than any shortfall in what the technology can do. The company started with applications because security reviews blocked rollouts there first, and says the same pressure is now building around frontier models.

The company's founders came to the problem from different sides. CEO Rune Kvist was Anthropic PBC's first product hire, while co-founder Rajiv Dattani was a partner in McKinsey & Co.'s insurance practice and later chief operating officer of the AI model evaluation nonprofit METR. Dattani compares the moment to the early electricity industry, when insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories to test and certify products.

The stakes hinge on whether the same security-review pressure that stalled agent pilots will push frontier model developers toward independent certification, and whether insurers follow. AIUC-1 already has a list of well-known holders, and a consortium of more than 250 security and risk leaders from Fortune 1000 companies shapes the standard and pushes for its adoption inside their own organizations.