US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators

The US Commerce Department has proposed a fresh set of reporting requirements for developers of cutting-edge AI models and those renting the infrastructure required to train them.

The rules [PDF], published on Monday, are a response to the Biden administration's executive order on the "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence" enacted last northern autumn.

The executive order established interim reporting requirements for those developing large AI compute clusters and/or training frontier models. The order also directed the Commerce Department to define and maintain permanent reporting standards.

As we reported at the time, the interim limits targeted only the biggest models and compute clusters.

The updated rules mandate reporting of models that require more than 10²⁶ integer or floating point operations to train. Models trained primarily on biological sequence data are subject to a lower threshold of 10²³ operations.

Entities developing such projects ...