AI Act: Requirements for General-Purpose AI Models

Digital illustration representing the EU AI Act, featuring a white and blue robot holding scales of justice outside the European Parliament building, alongside an EU flag, a gavel labelled 'ACT', and cartoon politicians.

August 28, 2024. This article was first published in the IAPP’s AI Act series here.  It is republished here with minor editorial edits to improve readability. If you were to read the European Commission’s original AI Act proposal, published in April 2021, you would find it conspicuously devoid of references to general-purpose AI (“GPAI”). With the […]