Chapter VGPAI
Article 53
Obligations for Providers of General-Purpose AI Models
Plain-Language Summary
All GPAI providers must: maintain technical documentation, provide information to downstream providers, implement copyright compliance, and publish a training data summary. Open-source models are exempt from documentation obligations unless they have systemic risk.
Keywords
GPAItechnical documentationcopyrighttraining dataopen sourcedownstream providersAnnex XIAnnex XII
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Article 53 — Obligations for Providers of General-Purpose AI Models 1. Providers of general-purpose AI models shall: (a) draw up and keep up-to-date the technical documentation of the model, including its training and testing process and evaluation results (Annex XI); (b) draw up, keep up-to-date and make available information and documentation to providers of AI systems who intend to integrate the general-purpose AI model into their AI systems (Annex XII); (c) put in place a policy to comply with Union law on copyright and related rights, including to identify and comply with reservations of rights expressed pursuant to Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790; (d) draw up and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training. 2. The obligations in points (a) and (b) shall not apply to providers of general-purpose AI models released under a free and open-source licence that allows access, usage, modification, and distribution, and whose parameters are made publicly available. This exception does not apply to models with systemic risk.