Overview of Guidelines for GPAI Models

On July 18, 2025, the European Commission released draft Guidelines that explain how the EU AI Act applies to General Purpose AI models (GPAI, which are flexible AI systems that can handle many different tasks). The Guidelines define GPAI models based on a compute threshold (10²³ FLOPs, or floating point operations, a measure combining model size and training data size), require providers to document their models and report serious incidents, and impose stricter obligations on very large models trained with 10²⁵ FLOPs or more. Providers of these large models must notify the Commission within two weeks and can request reassessment of their systemic risk classification if they provide evidence the model is not actually risky.