EU AI Act / Chapter V / Article 53
EU AI Act · Article 53
Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models
What it means
Providers keep technical documentation (Annex XI, including known or estimated energy consumption), give downstream providers the information they need (Annex XII), put in place a policy to comply with EU copyright law including opt-outs, and publish a sufficiently detailed summary of training content. Free open-source models are exempt from the first two unless they have systemic risk.
Live checks for Article 53
- EU AI Act Art.53 - GPAI technical documentation
- EU AI Act Art.53 - training copyright policy
- EU AI Act Art.53 - training-content summary published
- EU AI Act Art.53 - energy figure ready for the AI Office and downstream providers
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See also: Provider, General-purpose AI model provider obligations.
Plain-English summary by sebbi.pro of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. The official text is the only authoritative version: EUR-Lex.