Defined in the law · AI Act Art. 3(63)
General-purpose AI model
In plain English
An AI model, including one trained on large amounts of data, that is very general, performs a wide range of tasks competently and can be built into many systems. Research and prototype models are excluded.
The definition in the law
‘general-purpose AI model’ means an AI model, including where such an AI model is trained with a large amount of data using self-supervision at scale, that displays significant generality and is capable of competently performing a wide range of distinct tasks regardless of the way the model is placed on the market and that can be integrated into a variety of downstream systems or applications, except AI models that are used for research, development or prototyping activities before they are placed on the market
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