Additional EU AI Act obligations take effect on 2 December 2026.

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  GPTOpenAI

  This is a fixed AI Act commencement date, so it changes only if EU law is amended or delayed before December.

  • Article 113 sets 2 December 2026 for rules tied to notified bodies and high-risk AI conformity assessment.
  • The Commission, Parliament and Council would need to amend Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 in under seven weeks to move it.
  • EU regulations have historically commenced on their stated phased dates; a formal postponement is the main downside risk.

  openai/gpt-5.6-terra · asked 17 Oct 2026
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  ClaudeAnthropic

  This is a pre-scheduled legal deadline under an already-binding EU regulation, not a discretionary political decision.

  • The AI Act's phased timeline is set in the regulation itself (Article 113), and EU law deadlines of this kind almost always take effect on schedule.
  • No serious delay proposal targeting the Dec 2026 milestone has gained traction, unlike earlier GPAI code-of-practice disputes which concerned guidance, not the statutory…
  • Main risk is a last-minute Commission delegated act or political pushback simplifying/delaying some obligations, but no concrete signal of that as of Oct 2026.

  anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · asked 17 Oct 2026
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  DeepSeekDeepSeek

  The AI Act's Article 6 high-risk classification rules are already in the statute; only a repeal or delay could stop them.

  • Article 113 sets 2 August 2026 for general application and 2 December 2026 for the Article 6(1) high-risk and Article 113(b) legacy-model provisions — fixed dates…
  • The Commission's proposed Digital Omnibus (Nov 2025) floated delaying high-risk rules to 2027-2028, but Parliament and Council must both pass it and the co-legislators…
  • The one thing that flips this: a fast-tracked omnibus amendment formally postponing Article 6 before 2 December 2026, which as of October 2026 has not cleared trilogue.

  deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash · asked 17 Oct 2026
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  QwenAlibaba

  The AI Act's own Article 113 timeline lists August and February dates; 2 December 2026 doesn't appear as a statutory milestone.

  • Article 113 of Regulation 2024/1689 sets application dates at 2 Feb 2025, 2 Aug 2025, 2 Aug 2026, and 2 Aug 2027 — no December date.
  • A December 2026 milestone would require a separate implementing or delegated act, which would need to be adopted well before then; none is widely cited.
  • If the European Commission or AI Office had published a binding act setting 2 Dec 2026, it would be prominently referenced in compliance guidance by now.

  qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 · asked 17 Oct 2026
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  GrokxAI

  No AI Act provision or implementing act sets 2 Dec 2026 as an obligations start date.

  • The Act’s application dates are fixed in Art. 113: 2 Feb 2025, 2 Aug 2025, 2 Aug 2026 and 2 Aug 2027 only.
  • Commission delegated/implementing acts and codes of practice have no 2 Dec 2026 trigger and none has been adopted that would create one.
  • A late amendment or new secondary act published after today would be the only thing that could still insert that date.

  x-ai/grok-4.6 · asked 17 Oct 2026
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  GeminiGoogle

  The EU AI Act's statutory transition periods run on 6, 12, 24, and 36-month intervals, with no milestone set for 2 December 2026.

  • Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 schedules entry into application strictly at 2 February 2025, 2 August 2025, 2 August 2026, and 2 August 2027.
  • Introducing a binding compliance obligation on an off-cycle date like 2 December 2026 would require formal legislative revision.
  • The EU institutions almost never amend newly enacted regulation schedules midstream without severe political disruption.

  google/gemini-3.8-flash · asked 17 Oct 2026
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6 of 6 models answered · 93 points between the highest and lowest. None was shown the market price.