Open-Source LLMs: Europe's Bold Leap Towards Digital Sovereignty
Europe's OpenEuroLLM project will develop open-source language models for all EU languages, advancing digital sovereignty and homegrown AI.
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Open-Source LLMs: Europe's Bold Leap Towards Digital Sovereignty
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a global race, with nations vying for dominance in this transformative technology. Amidst this competition, Europe has emerged with a distinct vision: digital sovereignty. This vision centers on empowering Europe to control its digital destiny, fostering innovation, and ensuring that critical technologies, like AI, are developed and governed within its borders. A key component of this strategy is the development of open-source large language models (LLMs), a goal being pursued through the ambitious OpenEuroLLM project. OpenEuroLLM represents a collaborative effort involving around 20 organizations, spearheaded by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist from Charles University in Prague, and Peter Sarlin, CEO and co-founder of Finnish AI lab Silo AI. The project's central objective is to create a series of "truly" open-source LLMs that cater to all official languages of the European Union, including the 24 currently reco…
