OpenEuroLLM

The OpenEuroLLM (Open European Family of Large Language Models) project gathers Europe’s leading AI companies and research institutions to develop next-generation open-source language models.

The OpenEuroLLM project will build a family of high-performance, multilingual, large language foundation models for commercial, industrial and public services. 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. The project consortium gathers 20 leading European research institutions and EuroHPC centres coordinated by Charles University (Czechia) and co-led by AMD Silo AI (Finland). The ALT-EDIC brings to the project its ability for linguistic data creation and management, language technology evaluation, and community building.

The OpenEuroLLM project is aligned with the imperative to improve Europe’s competitiveness and digital sovereignty. The project is a prime example of the type of technology infrastructure needed to lower thresholds for European AI product development and refinement, demonstrating the strength of transparency, openness and community involvement, values largely recognized across the European tech ecosystem. The models will be developed within Europe’s robust regulatory framework, ensuring alignment with European values while maintaining technological excellence.

Cooperating with open-source and open science communities like LAION, open-sci and OpenML, and additional experts in the field assembled in the project’s Open Strategic Partnership Board, OpenEuroLLM will ensure that the models, software, data and evaluation will be fully open and can be fine-tuned and instruction-tuned for specific industry and public sector needs. These multilingual models preserve both linguistic and cultural diversity, enabling European companies to develop high-quality products and services in the era of AI.

The project, which has been awarded the STEP (Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform) seal, leverages support from previous European projects and the experience of the partners and their results, including large repositories of high-quality data and pilot LLMs developed previously. It is funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme and has started on February 1st, 2025, for a duration of 3 years.

Further information is available here.