Defined in the law · AI Act Art. 3(67)
Floating-point operation
In plain English
Any mathematical operation involving floating-point numbers. The AI Act uses the number of these operations used to train a general-purpose AI model to presume it has high-impact capabilities.
The definition in the law
‘floating-point operation’ means any mathematical operation or assignment involving floating-point numbers, which are a subset of the real numbers typically represented on computers by an integer of fixed precision scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base
A general-purpose AI model shall be presumed to have high impact capabilities pursuant to paragraph 1, point (a), when the cumulative amount of computation used for its training measured in floating point operations
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