They call their project OpenEuroLLM.
LikeDeepSeek, they aim to develop next-generation open-source language models but their agenda is very different.
Their mission: forging European AI that will foster digital leaders and impactful public services across the continent.
To support these objectives, OpenEuroLLM is building a family of high-performing, multilingual large language foundation models.
The models will be available for commercial, industrial, and public services.
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Theyre joined by an array of European tech luminaries.
Their alliance has been backed by the European Commission.
According to Sarlin, the initiative could be the Commissions largest-everAIproject.
This concentrated approach is what Europe needs to build open European AI models that eventually enable innovation at scale.
The project also aligns with the EUs plans to fortify Europes digital sovereignty, which is becoming vulnerable.
OpenEuroLLM hopes to strengthen the continents position with new digital infrastructure.
According to OpenEuroLLM, the models, software, data, and evaluationwill be fully open.
They will also be capable of fine-tuning and instruction-tuning for specific industry and public sector needs.
Additionally, the alliance promises to preserve both linguistic and cultural diversity.
The plans arrive in testing times for European tech.
Sarlin wants OpenEuroLLM to bring new hope to the continent.
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
