EuroLLM was built using a Horizon Europe and EuroHPC supercomputing grant. It’s competitive with open US models, benchmarks say
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A pan-European team of researchers have used a dedicated grant from the EuroHPC supercomputing consortium to create an artificial intelligence model specially designed to perform better in EU languages.
In European languages, the EuroLLM model is on a par with open source rivals created by Google and Meta, recently released benchmarks say, and the idea is that it will allow EU companies, governments and researchers to create tools that perform better in local tongues.
“It benefits the whole ecosystem,” said Andre Martins, a computer scientist at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, and one of the team that built EuroLLM. “It was the computing grant […] that made everything possible.”
The model is already open for developers…
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