The European Commission confirmed on Friday that it will delay enforcement of the general-purpose AI model code of practice by six months, granting frontier laboratories until November to come into compliance.
The delay had been requested in writing by Mistral, Aleph Alpha and a coalition of cloud providers, who argued that the original timeline was technically unachievable. Civil-society groups called the move a capitulation.
Officials at DG CNECT said the additional months would be used to clarify the audit regime for the largest training runs, an issue that has divided member states since the Council adopted the Act in 2024.