Why does the EU AI Act hang in the balance? The OpenAI drama offers clues

VentureBeat November 28, 2023
Sharon Goldman

The EU AI Act, which has been poised to become landmark comprehensive AI legislation, is currently hanging in the balance due to squabbling around regulation of ‘foundation’ models, or AI models trained on a massive scale like GPT-4, Claude and Llama.

The French, German, and Italian governments recently advocated for limited regulation of foundation models, which many say is a result of intense lobbying by Big Tech as well as open source companies like Mistral, which is advised by Cédric O, a former digital minister for the French government. Some have called this a “power grab” that would gut the EU AI Act.

Meanwhile, those in favor of including foundation models in the EU AI Act regulations have pushed back:...

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