Activities / Who your organization is
Is a frontier developer
is_frontier_developer
The company behind your app trained, or started training, a frontier model, one trained with more than 10^26 operations.
- scope role
- in the registry since 1.18
- 50 laws in 36 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It trained, or started training, a frontier model: one trained with more than 10^26 operations (California SB 53, the RAISE Act). A small fine-tune of another's model is not this.
California's SB 53 defines a frontier model as a foundation model trained with more than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, and New York's RAISE Act adds a training-cost threshold.
Only a handful of companies have trained one.
What does not
Calling someone else's model, or a small fine-tune of it, does not count.
Often confused with Trains models and Provides a general-purpose AI model.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
| Area of law | Laws | Jurisdictions |
|---|---|---|
|
Cybersecurity law
Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline. |
42 | 29 |
|
AI law
Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.
|
8 | 7 |
In a declaration
A role says who operates a product, so it is declared in the product's
own lexlint.yml and never in a component's
ACTIVITIES.md: a library cannot make the product that uses
it a regulated party.
In lexlint.yml
History
In the registry since version 1.18, .
Added for Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53) (California), Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act) (New York) from , in 2 months, the law that turns on it.
In the glossary: Is a frontier developer.
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