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AI Act duties for general-purpose AI model providers start to apply

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Source: European Commission: Questions and answers on GPAI provider guidelinesAlso reported by European Commission: guidelines for GPAI providers

Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models under the AI Act applied from 2 August 2025, after the Commission published scope guidelines on 18 July. The guidelines treat models trained with more than 10^23 FLOP that generate language, images or video as general-purpose, and the AI Act presumes systemic risk above 10^25 FLOP. Models already on the market before 2 August 2025 have until 2 August 2027 to comply, and Commission enforcement, including fines, starts on 2 August 2026.

Why it matters

Model developers selling in the EU had to start publishing training-data summaries, keeping copyright policies and notifying the AI Office of systemic-risk models from this date.

When
2 Aug 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0071
Who
European Commission, AI Office
Rules involved

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.

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WTA-N-2025-0071: “AI Act duties for general-purpose AI model providers start to apply.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Aug 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/eu-gpai-obligations-apply-2025-08/ (source: European Commission: Questions and answers on GPAI provider guidelines).

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