California's attempted AI legislation defined anyone investing more than $10 million in fine-tuning a model as a 'developer'.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by official bill text (SB 1047) and corroborated by multiple independent law firm analyses and news reports. Minor simplification: the bill actually requires both a compute threshold and the $10 million cost threshold for fine-tuned models, not cost alone.
Sources
- Global AI Governance—Part 1: Decoding Developers and Deployers | Oxford Law Blogs (blogs.law.ox.ac.uk)
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047 (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)
- https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=deb75902-efe7-43c6-b886-82bec918ca1a (lexology.com)
- https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2024/08/californias-sb-1047-would-impose-new-safety-requirements-for-developers-of-large-scale-ai-models (morganlewis.com)
- https://www.gibsondunn.com/regulating-the-future-eight-key-takeaways-from-californias-sb-1047-vetoed-by-governor-newsom/ (gibsondunn.com)
- https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/09/california-sb1047-ai-safety-regulation (carnegieendowment.org)
- https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/08/ai-safety-bill-california-legislature/ (calmatters.org)