Kent Walker, Google's president of global affairs, told Politico last month that the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models — which refers to systems like OpenAI's GPT family of large language models, or LLMs — was a "step in the wrong direction."
The EU AI Office, a newly created body overseeing models under the AI Act, published a second-draft code of practice for GPAI systems in December.
Earlier this month, Meta's newly appointed Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan suggested in a live-streamed interview at an event in Brussels that the tech giant would not sign up to the code in its current form.