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European Commission creates the AI Office to supervise general-purpose AI models

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Source: European CommissionAlso reported by TechCrunch

The European Commission published its decision establishing the European AI Office inside DG CONNECT on 24 January 2024. On 29 May it set out the Office’s structure from 16 June: five units, with more than 140 staff planned, and a mandate to enforce the AI Act’s rules for general-purpose AI models, test and evaluate those models, request information from providers and coordinate codes of practice.

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Providers of general-purpose AI models serving the EU now had one Commission body, with its own AI safety unit, that would supervise them and could sanction them under the AI Act.

When
24 Jan 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0034
Who
European Commission, European AI Office
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from European Commission and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at European Commission

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextEU AI Office publishes first draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

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WTA-N-2024-0034: “European Commission creates the AI Office to supervise general-purpose AI models.” wheresthe.ai, 24 Jan 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/eu-ai-office-established-2024-01/ (source: European Commission).

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