The product-linked rules of the EU AI Act enter into application on 2 August 2028.

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  GPTOpenAI

  This mainly turns on whether the EU’s agreed omnibus postponement survives without another legislative delay.

  • The Commission, Parliament and Council must keep the amended application date in the final legal text and publish it in the Official Journal.
  • EU regulations’ staged application dates usually take effect as enacted; the 2028 timetable is already designed to give product-law bodies time.
  • A further broad simplification package, implementation failure, or a new amendment before August 2028 would most materially lower the odds.

  openai/gpt-5.6-terra · asked 8 Oct 2026
  87%
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  GeminiGoogle

  Implementation timelines enshrined in EU legislation rarely shift twice unless technical harmonization completely stalls.

  • The 48-month window under Article 111/Annex I gives standard-setting bodies CEN-CENELEC sufficient runway to deliver harmonized standards.
  • Postponing beyond August 2028 would require a full trilogue revision by the Parliament and Council, facing stiff member-state resistance.
  • A massive failure in notified body capacity could force a targeted 12-month extension similar to the Medical Devices Regulation delays.

  google/gemini-3.8-flash · asked 8 Oct 2026
  82%
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  QwenAlibaba

  Hinges on whether the omnibus amendment formally passes and is published in the Official Journal before August 2028.

  • The AI Act (Reg. 2024/1689) sets 2 Aug 2027 for high-risk Annex III, but the omnibus proposal explicitly moves product-linked (Annex I) rules to 2 Aug 2028; passage…
  • Legislative delays are the main risk: the omnibus was proposed mid-2025 and trilogues on AI Act amendments have historically slipped 6–12 months, but the 2028 date is…
  • A change of mind would come if the European Parliament's IMCO or LIBE committees signal they will not conclude trilogue before summer 2027, which would push the date…

  qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 · asked 8 Oct 2026
  82%
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  GrokxAI

  Whether co-legislators leave the 2 Aug 2028 applicability date untouched after the omnibus delay.

  • Commission and Parliament/Council would have to adopt another amending act before mid-2028 to shift the date again.
  • AI Act already slipped once via 2025/26 omnibus; further slips occur in ~1/3 of complex EU digital files when CEN/CENELEC standards lag.
  • A completed high-risk standards package by late 2027 would lock the date; a public Commission delay proposal would drop it sharply.

  x-ai/grok-4.6 · asked 8 Oct 2026
  68%
• C
  ClaudeAnthropic

  Hinges on whether the EU finalizes the omnibus delay legislatively and no further postponement occurs before August 2028.

  • The omnibus proposal already rescheduled these product-linked rules to August 2028, showing political will to delay but also willingness to shift dates again.
  • EU legislative timelines are long and trilogue negotiations could still adjust the date before formal adoption, especially given ongoing simplification debates.
  • Precedent of repeated AI Act delays (GPAI codes, high-risk timelines) suggests non-trivial risk of another slip before 2028, but base case still favors the current plan…

  anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 · asked 8 Oct 2026
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  DeepSeekDeepSeek

  Whether the Council and Parliament ratify the omnibus delay to 2 August 2028 without further slippage.

  • The Commission proposed the Digital Omnibus in Nov 2025 to push product-embedded high-risk AI rules from Aug 2026 to Aug 2028; co-legislators must agree before the…
  • Base rate for EU trilogues finishing inside 12 months is moderate, but AI Act files have moved fast before, and the delay is broadly uncontroversial among member states.
  • If Parliament's IMCO/LIBE instead demand earlier application or attach conditions, the date slips or splits, which is the main way this resolves false.

  deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash · asked 8 Oct 2026
  55%

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