Open source LLMs hit Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap

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February 16, 2025, 2:30 PM

• •Europe launches €37.4M project to develop ‘truly open source’ LLMs covering all EU languages
• •The project is led by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist from the Charles University in Prague, and Peter Sarlin, CEO and co-founder of Finnish AI lab Silo AI
• •The project has a budget of €37.4 million, with roughly €20 million coming from the EU’s Digital Europe Programme

Europe launches €37.4 million program to develop a series of ‘truly’ open source LLMs covering all EU languages. The project has been met with skepticism from some quarters, with critics questioning whether its goals are achievable and whether it will be able to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Google.

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