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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.

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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.

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Funding: Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement No 101195233.

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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

Project period: 2025-03 - 2027-02

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For more information, contact

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Magnus Sahlgren
Head of Research, NLU
+46 (0)76-315 34 80

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