New York opens a portal for large frontier AI developers to register under the RAISE Act

A Department of Financial Services release dated 10 November 2026 says the Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust, DIGIT, launched an online portal for large frontier AI developers to register with New York by 1 January 2027. It says that under the RAISE Act, frontier AI developers operating in New York are subject to safety and transparency requirements, with additional obligations for large frontier developers. It says that beginning in January, large frontier developers will be required to publish safety frameworks on their websites, and all frontier developers will be required to report critical safety incidents and publish model transparency reports. It says the Act requires a report of any critical safety incident within 72 hours. The release does not attach the statute.

The same release says the state launched the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research, based at the State University of New York at Binghamton. It says the centre will bring together more than 80 scientists. It describes Empire AI as the governor's $500 million public-private initiative. It says the governor first announced the centre in January with a $30 million philanthropic gift and an initial $25 million research investment from SUNY. It says the centre will be able, at the state's request, to review developers' published safety frameworks and provide recommendations.

A separate department page for frontier developers does not print its own date. It says a frontier model is a foundation model trained using computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, including later fine-tuning and other material modifications, and that a large frontier developer is a frontier developer that, with its affiliates, had annual gross revenues above US$500 million in the preceding calendar year. It says those definitions are a summary and points readers to the Senate site for the statute. It says critical safety incidents are reported to DIGIT within 72 hours, and within 24 hours to an appropriate authority if the incident poses an imminent risk of death or serious physical injury. It says large frontier developers, beginning 1 January 2027, maintain a current disclosure statement and pay applicable assessments, publish a safety framework reviewed at least once a year, and summarise catastrophic-risk assessments for DIGIT within 30 days of the end of each calendar quarter. The statute text was not opened, so this account uses the release and that summary page only.

What it means for business: the dated release tells large frontier developers to register by 1 January 2027 and says the reporting and framework duties begin in January. The revenue and computing thresholds are on the department's summary page, not in the release, and the statute was not opened. This describes those pages. It is not advice on whether a particular company has to register.