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Recount finds 13 of 21 AI providers publish the EU training-data summary
Census authors on dev.to count 13 of 21 AI providers publishing the EU AI Act's training-content summary, up from the 2 they reported nine days earlier. Most newly counted documents sit on legal or trust pages the model card never links to, so checks that stop at the card miss them.
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What happened
- The first sweep graded only what a first-time visitor sees: the model card, the research page and the landing page.
- Ten providers moved up on recount: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, ByteDance, xAI, Tencent, Cohere and Aleph Alpha.
- The EU template, C(2025) 8311 final, has three sections: general information, a list of data sources, and data processing aspects such as TDM opt-outs and filtering.
- DeepSeek's summary covers DeepSeek-V4, records EU market placement on 24 April 2026, and names Prighter Group as its EU authorised representative.
Why it matters
- decision A vendor check built like the first sweep would have missed 11 providers that publish, so the search has to cover legal, trust-center and help pages before a vendor is marked absent.
- constraint Reviewers still have to grade content themselves, because the census tier passes a report a tracker scores C/D+ alongside a fully substantive one.
- exposure Compliance records that keep only a URL can go stale on hosts that rotate filenames, leaving a 404 in the file while a live document exists.
The authors split the gap two ways: some of it is real drift, and some is their own shallow search [2]. They do not say how much of each. The paths the post records show the search half. OpenAI indexes six or more per-model PDFs at help.openai.com [9]. xAI lists its Grok summaries on x.ai/legal [14], and ByteDance serves its from seed.bytedance.com/transparency [13]. Anthropic keeps ten per-model documents in a "Training Data Summaries" section of its Trust Center [11]. Google hosts its 8-page Gemini 3 family summary on the AI Transparency Report's GCS bucket [10].
One line of the count needs reconciling. The first sweep found 2 providers [1]. Ten promotions on that base make 12 [21]. The post reaches 13 by adding the ten to three providers it lists as already at T3 before the correction: DeepSeek, Mistral and NVIDIA [8][19]. DeepSeek, whose summary file the authors could not resolve the week before [17], appears to be the difference.
T3 is the census's tier for a dedicated summary that follows the template's structure [7]. It tests shape. Meta's report is, in the authors' own caveat, a thin 2-pager that a third-party tracker grades C/D+ [12]. Aleph Alpha's Kolibri 1 summary runs 8 pages, with all three sections substantive, 8 named public datasets and 7 named synthetic-generator models [15].
The obligation has applied since 2 August 2025, and pre-existing models have until 2 August 2027 [4]. The EU market-placement date sits in the template's general-information section [3]. That date decides which deadline a model is under. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 was placed on 11 December 2025 [9], inside the live obligation. For the eight providers outside T3 [22], a missing summary is overdue only for models placed after 2 August 2025 [4].
Scope needs reading as well. The GPT-5.2 document, dated 30 July 2026, says it covers GPT-5.2 and all subsequent releases in the lifecycle [9]. Matching a model ID to a summary means reading that clause, since one document can stand for releases that shipped after it was written.
DeepSeek's file was the hardest to pin down. Its CDN is an S3 bucket whose index returns 404 and whose filenames appear to rotate, and the authors found the current file through a third-party tracker's link list [17]. For one of the 13, then, the working index to a compliance document was somebody else's list of links. "Lesson: the bucket isn't unstable for the current filename, just for the old ones," the authors wrote [18].
What to watch
- Whether the eight providers outside T3 publish summaries before 2 August 2027, and whether any of their models were placed on the EU market after August 2025.
- Whether the third-party tracker that graded Meta C/D+ publishes content grades for all 13, separating template-shaped documents from substantive ones.
- Whether DeepSeek's current filename on cdn.deepseek.com survives its next model release.
Clarity's read
What the record supports and how the coverage leans. The claims behind it follow.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence45
Claim ledger
Ranked by verification strength, evidence, and original report placement.
- [1]
Nine days after counting 'only 2 of 21' AI providers publishing the document the EU AI Act asks for, the census authors re-verified every row; the corrected number is 13 of 21 providers publishing a dedicated, template-conformant 'Public Summary of Training Content' under Article 53(1)(d).
- [2]
Part of the delta between the first and corrected counts is real drift, and part is the authors having looked too shallowly.
- [3]
The EU template C(2025) 8311 final asks GPAI providers to publish a public summary with three sections: (1) general information (provider, model IDs, EU market-placement date, per-modality data size brackets), (2) a list of data sources (public, licensed, crawled, user, synthetic), and (3) data processing aspects (TDM opt-outs, filtering, etc.).
- [4]
The obligation has applied since 2025-08-02; pre-existing models have until 2027-08-02.
- [5]
The issue #1 sweep graded what a first-time visitor sees: the model card, the research page, the landing page. That undercounted.
- [6]
Most of the 10 providers promoted keep their Art. 53(1)(d) documents one click deeper, on a legal page, a trust center, or a transparency-report page that the model card never links to.
- [7]
Ten providers moved up to T3 (dedicated, template-structured summary): OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, ByteDance, xAI, Tencent, Cohere and Aleph Alpha.
- [8]
DeepSeek, Mistral and NVIDIA were already at T3 before the correction.
- [9]
OpenAI publishes per-model 'Public Summary of Training Content' PDFs; the GPT-5.2 document is v1, dated 2026-07-30, from OpenAI Ireland, placed 2025-12-11, >10T tokens, and says it covers GPT-5.2 and all subsequent releases in the lifecycle. Six or more per-model PDFs are indexed at help.openai.com.
- [10]
Google publishes an 8-page 'Public Summary of Training Content for General-Purpose AI Models - Gemini 3 model family' (v1, 2026-07-02), hosted on the AI Transparency Report's GCS bucket.
- [11]
Anthropic has a 'Training Data Summaries' section on its Trust Center with ten per-model documents.
- [12]
Meta runs an explicit Art. 53(1)(d) reporting program with per-model Transparency Report documents; the authors caveat that it is a thin 2-pager and a third-party tracker grades it C/D+.
- [13]
ByteDance publishes dedicated 'Public Summary of Training Data Content' PDFs per model from seed.bytedance.com/transparency.
- [14]
xAI publishes a 'Public Summary of Training Content for Grok 4.5', and Grok 4.6 is also listed on x.ai/legal.
- [15]
Aleph Alpha's 'Kolibri 1 - Sufficiently Detailed Summary' (v1.0, 2026-10-03) runs 8 pages, with all three sections substantive, 8 named public datasets and 7 named synthetic-generator models.
- [16]
DeepSeek's summary covers DeepSeek-V4 (including V4-Pro and V4-Flash), is v1, last updated 2026-08-04, placed on the EU market 2026-04-24, and names Prighter Group as EU authorised representative.
- [17]
The authors could not resolve DeepSeek's summary file the previous week: its CDN is an S3 bucket whose index 404s and whose filenames appear to rotate. They found the exact current file, live on cdn.deepseek.com, through a third-party tracker's link list.
- [18]
"Lesson: the bucket isn't unstable for the current filename, just for the old ones."
- [19]
Ten promoted providers plus three already at T3 make 13.
- [20]
The corrected count is 11 providers higher than the first count.
- [21]
Ten promotions added to the original count of 2 make 12, one short of the corrected 13.
- [22]
Eight of the 21 providers do not publish a T3 summary.
Sources
1 independent publisher whose own reporting we read for this story.
- dev.toThe EU AI Act training-data census, corrected: 13 of 21, not 2 of 21
1 article · October 8, 2026
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