The deadline passed on Saturday. Here is what actually appeared
Last week this blog predicted an uneventful Monday. It was. But something did arrive, and it is worth knowing where to find it.
The EU AI Act’s general-purpose AI obligations took effect on Saturday 2 August 2025. As predicted here on 30 July, no Swiss SME received anything, nothing stopped working, and Monday looked like any other Monday.
What did happen is that documentation started appearing on model providers’ websites, and most Swiss companies do not know it exists or where to look.
What is now published
Providers serving the EU market have begun publishing, in varying states of completeness: technical documentation about their models, summaries of the data used for training, and a copyright policy.
Most have signed the Code of Practice published on 10 July, which is the route the Commission designed for demonstrating compliance. Some have signed parts of it. A few have not signed and are documenting compliance their own way, which is permitted and slightly harder to read.
Where to find it for the models you use
Not from your software vendor, at least not yet. The material is published by the model provider — the company whose model sits underneath the product you bought.
This is why the question from 4 April mattered: which model provider is behind this feature? If you asked in spring, you now know where to look. If you did not, ask now, because the documentation is useless to you if you do not know whose to read.
What to actually do with it
Not read it. These documents are long and written for regulators.
Save the link, with the date you saved it, in the same folder as your page. That is the whole action. When a customer’s procurement asks what the AI in your service is built on, you send a link instead of an apology, and the difference in how that lands is considerable.
The honest assessment of the whole milestone
A rule took effect that created no obligation for you and produced a document you can point at. That is an unusually good outcome from a regulatory deadline, and it is roughly the opposite of what the coverage suggested for the past nine months.
Next EU date: 2 August 2026. Next Swiss date: implementing law expected end-2026. Both are a year away, which means this subject is now genuinely closed until next summer.