The European Commission’s guidelines note that the AI Act’s definition of a “general-purpose AI model” “does not set out specific criteria” and adopt an indicative criterion: training compute above 10²³ FLOP and the ability to generate language, images or video, while calling compute “an imperfect proxy for generality and capabilities.”

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Does the EU's training-compute criterion track how general a model is?The Commission adopts 10²³ FLOP plus generative ability as an indicative criterion and calls compute an imperfect proxy.

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Claim type: Fact
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: legal scope
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: A claim that models below the threshold are not general-purpose, or that the guidelines bind courts
Limitations: The definition in Article 3(63) was read as quoted in the guidelines, not in the Official Journal; guidelines are not binding law; the Commission says the criterion may change as technology and the market evolve
Source (as cited): European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025
Source type: Government document (recorded as “Government publication”)
Institutional position: Regulator (European Commission)
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 16 October 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025 (Government document)
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Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (LEGAL_SCOPE) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH LEGAL-SCOPE QUALIFIER”)
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Source type (coded): GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD01-SL-C36	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	The European Commission’s guidelines note that the AI Act’s definition of a “general-purpose AI model” “does not set out specific criteria” and adopt an indicative criterion: training compute above 10²³ FLOP and the ability to generate language, images or video, while calling compute “an imperfect proxy for generality and capabilities.”	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	C — Infrastructure, capital and legal category	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025	source_ids: SRC-SL-EC-GPAI-GUIDELINES-C-2025-7719
7	SOURCE TYPE	Government publication	classes: GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Regulator (European Commission)	—
9	SCOPE	European Union; providers of general-purpose AI models under the AI Act	—
10	DESIGN	Interpretive guidelines	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Not applicable	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	General-purpose AI models in general	—
13	COMPARATOR	AI systems built on those models	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Indicative criterion: a model trained with more than 10²³ FLOP that can generate language, images or video “likely is” a general-purpose AI model; systemic risk presumed above 10²⁵ FLOP; models distinguished from the downstream AI systems they are integrated into	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	How EU law classifies generative AI models	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	A claim that models below the threshold are not general-purpose, or that the guidelines bind courts	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	The definition in Article 3(63) was read as quoted in the guidelines, not in the Official Journal; guidelines are not binding law; the Commission says the criterion may change as technology and the market evolve	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	LD01-SL-C11, LD01-SL-C28	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	EU / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Not analysed in this claim	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	LD-01, T4, D6	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Revised criteria, or a court ruling on the definition	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH LEGAL-SCOPE QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: LEGAL_SCOPE
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-16	—

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SocioLens project. (2026, October 16). The European Commission’s guidelines note that the AI Act’s definition of a “general-purpose AI model” “does not set out specific criteria” and adopt an indicative criterion: training compute above 10²³ FLOP and the ability to generate language, images or video, while calling compute “an imperfect proxy for generality and capabilities.” [Claim LD01-SL-C36, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld01-sl-c36/v1.0/

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