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term: "General-purpose AI model"
category: "AI regulation"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/general-purpose-ai-model
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
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# General-purpose AI model

> Under the AI Act, a model with significant generality that can perform a wide range of distinct tasks.

Under the EU AI Act, a general-purpose AI model is an AI model, often trained with a large amount of data using self-supervision at scale, that displays significant generality, can competently perform a wide range of distinct tasks and can be integrated into a variety of downstream systems. Its providers must keep technical documentation, give information to downstream providers, adopt a copyright policy and publish a summary of training content, with lighter duties for some open-source models and extra duties for models with systemic risk. Most AI agents are downstream systems built on such models.

Related terms: [Provider (AI Act)](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/ai-provider.md), [Large language model](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/large-language-model.md), [EU AI Act](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/eu-ai-act.md), [Third-party risk management](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/third-party-risk-management.md)