Under the EU AI Act, the party that develops an AI system or model and places it on the market or puts it into service under its name.
Also written as: provider
Primary source Reviewed 2026-06-22
Analysis that uses this term
- Brussels Has Five Tools to Fight Washington's Tech Aggression — Only One Is a RulebookThe EU's response to US tech coercion spans five instruments — regulation is the weakest. CAIDA's structural contradiction and the interim dependency window
- Europe's Five Cards — and the Two It Will Actually Play: A Deployability AuditA deployability audit of Europe's five response levers to US tech coercion. Regulation and procurement will scale; physical capacity, talent, and the ACI will
- CAIDA's Sovereignty Tiers: Legal Architecture or Hyperscaler Licence to Stay?CAIDA's tiered cloud framework lets AWS, Azure, and Google qualify as sovereign providers.
- EU AI Act: What 2 August 2026 Actually Requires (and What Moves to 2027–28)2 August 2026 moves the transparency line and switches on the penalty regime; the heavy high-risk obligations move to December 2027 and August 2028.
- The Collision Course: Trump's Tariffs vs. EU Tech Enforcement30% tariffs. €35M fines. The Atlantic just got wider.