New York State opens AI developer registration portal... reporting obligations to begin in 2027

New York State opened a registration portal for large frontier AI developers on Tuesday, with qualifying companies required to register by January 1, 2027, when public disclosure and reporting obligations take effect. The portal is run by the newly created Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust (DIGIT), and registration is separate from the law's enforcement timeline. The state defines a "frontier model" as a general-purpose foundation model trained with more than 10^26 operations, and companies developing such models qualify as "frontier developers" under the law. The framework matters because it establishes the first state-level disclosure regime for the most compute-intensive AI models, setting a compliance deadline that covered developers must prepare for. What to watch next is how many firms register ahead of the 2027 start date and whether other states follow New York's approach.