New York on Tuesday opened an online registration portal for large frontier AI developers covered by the state’s Responsible AI Safety and Education Act, known as the RAISE Act, Governor Kathy Hochul’s office said in a Nov. 10 release. Large frontier developers must register through the RAISE Portal by Jan. 1, 2027, the release said. The statute takes effect then. TechCrunch also reported the portal opening and said companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic will be required to register.
The law applies to frontier models developed, deployed, or operating in whole or in part in New York. Under S. 8828, a frontier model is a foundation model trained using more than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, including later fine-tuning and other material modifications. A large frontier developer is a frontier developer that, together with its affiliates, had annual gross revenues of more than $500 million in the preceding calendar year. TechCrunch described covered companies as those with more than $500 million in annual revenue and did not mention the compute threshold.
DIGIT, an office inside the Department of Financial Services, is implementing the law, the state has said. Beginning in January, large frontier developers must publish safety frameworks on their websites, and all frontier developers must report critical safety incidents and publish model transparency reports, Tuesday’s release said. A Sept. 21 state release said large frontier developers must also file quarterly assessments of catastrophic risks with DIGIT. The statute requires those developers to send the office a summary of any assessment of catastrophic risk from internal use of their models every three months, or on another agreed schedule, and to report critical safety incidents within 72 hours of determining that an incident occurred or of learning facts sufficient to establish a reasonable belief that one occurred.
The attorney general may bring a civil action seeking a penalty of up to $1 million for a first violation and up to $3 million for a subsequent violation, the statute says. Separately, the office may levy a civil penalty of $1,000 for each day a required disclosure is not filed. TechCrunch reported that the state can also take enforcement action against companies that fail to register.
Hochul also launched the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at SUNY Binghamton, which the state said will independently test advanced AI systems and work with DIGIT to review published safety frameworks. TechCrunch noted that California’s SB 53, which took effect in January, has related safety-framework and incident-reporting rules. Australia this week said it will create a regulator to enforce mandatory rules on frontier AI companies, and California has separately ordered a review of lab oversight, AI Tech Daily has reported.