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AI developers, users see EU’s guidelines on general-purpose AI models

By Luca Bertuzzi ( July 18, 2025, 10:20 GMT | Insight) -- The European Commission published today its guidelines on the AI Act's rules for general-purpose AI models, setting out its interpretation of the provisions' scope, key concepts and application. The document outlines compute thresholds for defining a model as general-purpose AI, and for when a modification constitutes the creation of a new model. It also explains when a model is considered as placed in the EU market, which models will fall under the open source exception and how the requirements will be applied to models already on the market.Developers and users of AI technologies saw the European Commission publish administrative guidelines on the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI models today, aimed at clarifying their scope, key concepts and interaction with a related code of practice....

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