Open source LLMs hit Europe's digital sovereignty roadmap

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Open source LLMs hit Europe's digital sovereignty roadmap

Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe's digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of

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Europe has taken a significant step in the race for digital sovereignty with the launch of OpenEuroLLM, an ambitious project to develop open source language models covering all the official languages of the European Union (EU). With funding of €37.4 million, the program seeks to compete with artificial intelligence giants worldwide. What is OpenEuroLLM? OpenEuroLLM is a consortium of 20 organisations, including supercomputer centers in Spain, It…