Chapter V: General-Purpose AI Models

What this part of the EU AI Act covers

Chapter V regulates general-purpose AI models in their own right, separately from the systems built on them. It sets the classification rules that determine when a model carries systemic risk, the documentation, copyright and training-content duties owed by all model providers, the additional obligations on systemic-risk models, and the codes of practice through which compliance can be demonstrated.

It binds model providers rather than the organisations building on their models, though downstream providers depend on the information Chapter V requires them to pass on. What it produces is documentation, a copyright policy and a public training-content summary, and, for systemic-risk models, evaluation and incident-reporting records.