Provider
Under Article 3(3), a natural or legal person that develops an AI system or GPAI model, or has it developed, and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name or trademark. Providers carry the technical-file and conformity-assessment obligations; their instructions for use inform but do not discharge the deployer's FRIA obligation.
Defined in 4 GAGE programs, which carry 15 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in EU AI Act Implementation Expert.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
Under Article 3(3), a natural or legal person that develops an AI system or GPAI model, or has it developed, and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name or trademark. Providers carry the technical-file and conformity-assessment obligations; their instructions for use inform but do not discharge the deployer's FRIA obligation.
The actor that develops an AI system (or has it developed) and places it on the market or into service under its own name or trademark. Bears the core high-risk obligations, including conformity assessment, technical documentation, and registration, and makes the primary classification of the system it builds.
Under the EU AI Act, the organization that develops an AI system or has it developed and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name, carrying the primary Article 10(2) documentation burden for how the system's training, validation, and testing data was governed.
The actor that builds and offers an AI model (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Microsoft); accountable for the model's design, documented limits, and the promises in its terms.
The actor that develops an AI system and places it on the market or into service under its own name or trademark (Article 3(3)).
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- AI Output Ownership and Accountability Frameworks · Ethical and Responsible AI and Operational Governance, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- EU AI Act Article 4 & US AI Workforce Mandates: Compliance Requirements · Ethical and Responsible AI and Operational Governance, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- Article 10 executed: the EU AI Act's data governance duty for the system your organization ships · Lineage Under Audit, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Article 4 executed: the literacy program you must actually stand up, with evidence · The EU AI Act: The Executive Map, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Risk classification: which of your organization's systems is high-risk and proving why · The EU AI Act: The Executive Map, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The conformity file: assembling the evidence for the system you shipped in Module 3 · The EU AI Act: The Executive Map, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Answering a regulator's letter: responding with documents, not assurances, anchored to real enforcement patterns · The EU AI Act: The Executive Map, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The agent audit trail: logging actions so you can reconstruct any decision it made · Agents Under Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The DPIA and FRIA, run jointly: one assessment, two regimes, no duplicate work · Evidence Engineering, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Role Definition: What an EU AI Act Expert Does (and Doesn't) · The EU AI Act Expert Role, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.