National and European AI Capability on the agenda as EU minister visits

The visit began with a presentation by Jonas Lind, Head of Research for NLU at AI Sweden, who outlined the ongoing European collaboration, OpenEuroLLM. The project aims to develop open, large-scale language models for all European languages and is a vital contribution to stronger European AI capacity and digital sovereignty.

Legal frameworks are another critical prerequisite for Swedish and European sovereignty and competitiveness. Discussions focused on the EU’s Digital Omnibus and GDPR requirements, which need to be simplified to facilitate the emergence of European language models and AI services.

EU Minister Tests Svea
The minister also tested Svea, a prototype for a shared digital assistant for the public sector, developed in collaboration with over 120 municipalities, regions, and agencies.

The work on Svea is part of the project “A Shared Digital Assistant for the Public Sector”—Sweden’s largest collaborative AI initiative for public operations. Furthermore, Svea is hosted by a Swedish infrastructure provider on Swedish soil, which is crucial for strengthening digital sovereignty.

Today, Svea contributes to increased work quality and time savings equivalent to SEK 50 million annually in the public sector. This represents time that can be spent on human-centric work rather than administration.