OpenEuroLLM

Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to develop next-generation open-source language models in an unprecedented collaboration to advance European AI capabilities, the OpenEuroLLM project.

Project purpose

A consortium of 20 leading European research institutions, companies and EuroHPC centres will build a family of performant, multilingual, large language foundation models for commercial, industrial and public services.

Expected outcome

The transparent and compliant open-source models will democratize access to high-quality AI technologies and strengthen the ability of European companies to compete on a global market and public organizations to produce impactful public services.

Project updates

OpenEuroLLM takes the next step for European AI sovereignty

2026-03-11

It has now been a year since the launch of OpenEuroLLM, one of Europe's most ambitious AI initiatives. By uniting 20 leading research institutions and companies, the project has, during its first year...

Rows of black server racks with colorful cables in a bright, modern data center with glass floor panels. Eu-flag with the text 'Co-funded by the European Union'

OpenEuroLLM secures strategic access to multiple supercomputers: A milestone for European language models

2025-12-18

OpenEuroLLM is set to develop high-performance language models for Europe. The major European collaborative project has now been granted 10 million GPU hours on Europe’s most powerful supercomputers....

AI Sweden contributes to the development of open LLMs for transparent AI in Europe

2025-02-26

Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to develop next-generation open-source language models. AI Sweden is one of the 20 European partners that...

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Funding: Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement No 101195233.

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Participants:

Charles University, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Czechia (coordinator)
Alliance for Language Technologies EDIC, (ALT-EDIC), France
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Germany
Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Research Center Juelich, Germany
Lindholmen Science Park, (AI Sweden), Sweden
University of Helsinki, Finland
University of Oslo, Norway
University of Turku, Finland
University of Tübingen, (Tübingen AI Center), Germany
Silo GenAI, (AMD Silo AI), Finland (co-lead)
Aleph Alpha Research, Germany
ellamind, Germany
LightOn, France
Prompsit Language Engineering, Spain
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Cineca Interuniversity Consortium, Italy
CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland
SURF, the Netherlands