Claim LD01-SL-C36 (v1.0)
The European Commission’s guidelines note that the AI Act’s definition of a “general-purpose AI model” “does not set out specific criteria” and adopt an indicative criterion: training compute above 10²³ FLOP and the ability to generate language, images or video, while calling compute “an imperfect proxy for generality and capabilities.”
Research opportunities this claim motivates
What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.
- Does the EU's training-compute criterion track how general a model is?The Commission adopts 10²³ FLOP plus generative ability as an indicative criterion and calls compute an imperfect proxy.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (LEGAL_SCOPE) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH LEGAL-SCOPE QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A claim that models below the threshold are not general-purpose, or that the guidelines bind courts
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025
- Source type (field 7)
- GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (as printed: “Government publication”)
- Institutional position
- Regulator (European Commission)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD01-SL-C36.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025” → SRC-SL-EC-GPAI-GUIDELINES-C-2025-7719--v1.0 — European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025; class GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD01-SL-C36 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | The European Commission’s guidelines note that the AI Act’s definition of a “general-purpose AI model” “does not set out specific criteria” and adopt an indicative criterion: training compute above 10²³ FLOP and the ability to generate language, images or video, while calling compute “an imperfect proxy for generality and capabilities.” | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | FACT | base_types: FACT |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | C — Infrastructure, capital and legal category | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025 | source_ids: SRC-SL-EC-GPAI-GUIDELINES-C-2025-7719 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Government publication | classes: GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Regulator (European Commission) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | European Union; providers of general-purpose AI models under the AI Act | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Interpretive guidelines | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Not applicable | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | General-purpose AI models in general | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | AI systems built on those models | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Indicative criterion: a model trained with more than 10²³ FLOP that can generate language, images or video “likely is” a general-purpose AI model; systemic risk presumed above 10²⁵ FLOP; models distinguished from the downstream AI systems they are integrated into | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | How EU law classifies generative AI models | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A claim that models below the threshold are not general-purpose, or that the guidelines bind courts | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | The definition in Article 3(63) was read as quoted in the guidelines, not in the Official Journal; guidelines are not binding law; the Commission says the criterion may change as technology and the market evolve | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | LD01-SL-C11, LD01-SL-C28 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | EU / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-01, T4, D6 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Revised criteria, or a court ruling on the definition | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH LEGAL-SCOPE QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: LEGAL_SCOPE |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-16 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-01 (LIVING_DEBATE); T4 (TENSION); D6 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 318a496f016c56a040d7eee8862b3ce8744784b061d9674dc79d88a29a2e6480.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C36 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-01 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-01 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 36 — LD01-SL-C36” SHA-256
d568cc480e2c8eb43da8f601b114ec31116c8841ce7a887ca9e4b80966d935f7; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD01-SL-C36--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C36 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-01 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C36 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-01 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-01 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-EC-GPAI-GUIDELINES-C-2025-7719--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 36 — LD01-SL-C36 cites "European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-EC-GPAI-GUIDELINES-C-2025-7719--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "European Commission, “Guidelines on the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act),” C(2025) 7719 final, 19 November 2025".