{"id":2492,"date":"2025-08-11T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:09:03","slug":"the-eus-ai-act-at-one-year-continuing-to-push-for-open-source-ai-and-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2025\/08\/11\/the-eus-ai-act-at-one-year-continuing-to-push-for-open-source-ai-and-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s AI Act at One Year: Continuing to push for open-source AI and transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Saturday, August 2, marked the first anniversary of the entry into force of the EU AI Act, the EU\u2019s contested landmark legislation putting in place rules for AI sold and deployed on its internal market. With a staggered timeline for when different rules take effect, Mozilla continues its work to ensure that the law\u2019s implementation is a success.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beginning last week, the AI Act imposes new obligations for the developers of so-called \u201cgeneral-purpose AI models\u201d (GPAI), that is, large AI models like OpenAI\u2019s GPT, Google\u2019s Gemini, or xAI\u2019s Grok models (often also refered to as \u201cfoundation models\u201d). Mozilla has <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250708083113\/https:\/\/www.mozillafoundation.org\/en\/blog\/how-to-make-sure-the-eu-ai-act-delivers-on-its-promise\/\">long advocated<\/a> for such rules to be included in the AI Act to ensure that large AI labs must play their part in making the technology they develop safer and more transparent and that due diligence obligations are not entirely passed down the value chain to smaller developers and deployers. These new rules include new transparency and disclosure mandates as well as obligations relating to GPAI developers safety and security practices.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion, Mozilla, in partnership with Hugging Face and Linux Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/blog\/yjernite\/eu-act-os-guideai\">published a guide for open-source AI developers<\/a> aiming to help them navigate these rules. Amongst other questions, the guide explains what exactly constitutes a GPAI model or a \u201cGPAI model with systemic risk\u201d, what obligations developers need to meet, and when they might benefit from the AI Act\u2019s exemptions for open-source AI. It builds on and synthesizes the recently adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/contents-code-gpai\">Code of Practice for GPAI developers<\/a> as well as the European Commission\u2019 newly published <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/library\/guidelines-scope-obligations-providers-general-purpose-ai-models-under-ai-act\">GPAI guidelines<\/a>. The guide also includes an interactive flowchart meant to help developers on their AI Act \u201cuser journey\u201d. This builds on Mozilla\u2019s long-standing work advocating for better conditions for open-source AI development, including our advocacy to ensure that open-source developers receive proportionate treatment under the AI Act.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, in late July, the European Commission also published a template for the \u201csufficiently detailed summary\u201d that GPAI developers are now mandated to publish about the data used to train their AI models. While the template falls short of expectations in many respects, it does in parts mirror <a href=\"https:\/\/openfuture.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240618AIAtransparency_template_requirements-2.pdf\">recommendations<\/a> made by Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/openfuture.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/240919AIAtransparency_template_requirements-blueprint_v.2.0.pdf\">building on<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/how-the-eu-ai-act-can-increase-transparency-around-ai-training-data\/\">our work<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/digital\/ara7bbd63b\">in partnership<\/a> with Open Future over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>With additional rules taking effect over the course of the coming years and the European Commission building up its capacity to enforce them, work on the AI Act is not over \u2014 it is entering a new phase. Amid discussions of regulatory simplification, a potential revision of the AI Act in the context of the EU\u2019s omnibus, and calls to \u201cstop the clock\u201d on enforcing the AI Act, Mozilla will continue its work to help make the AI Act\u2019s implementation a success. This is grounded in our conviction that good regulation and innovation aren\u2019t inherently contradictory, but rather complements when it comes to steering innovation in a direction that is beneficial to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, August 2, marked the first anniversary of the entry into force of the EU AI Act, the EU\u2019s contested landmark legislation putting in place rules for AI sold and &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2025\/08\/11\/the-eus-ai-act-at-one-year-continuing-to-push-for-open-source-ai-and-transparency\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391305,327292,51,141519],"tags":[],"coauthors":[452983],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The EU\u2019s AI Act at One Year: Continuing to push for open-source AI and transparency - Open Policy &amp; 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