BRUSSELS MOVES TO BRAND CHATGPT A ‘VERY LARGE PLATFORM’ — WHAT THAT MEANS FOR OPENAI IN EUROPE The European Commission is moving toward classifying ChatGPT under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Online Platform — with ChatGPT’s EU search feature clocking 120 million monthly users, well above the 45 million threshold. If it sticks, OpenAI faces sweeping new obligations around transparency, content moderation, and algorithmic accountability. Keywords: ChatGPT EU DSA, Very Large Online Platform, OpenAI Europe regulation, Digital Services Act AI