A project supporting the LLM European ecosystem coordinated by ALT-EDIC is selected

The LLMs4EU (Large Language Models for the European Union) project has been selected for EU funding under the Digital Europe Programme.

The project will support a large number of partners from the European LLM ecosystem. It will enable them to gather language data in sufficient quality and quantity to build large language foundation models as well as models adapted to specific languages, domains or industries, and to provide dedicated support and services enabling others to fine-tune the available models.

The project is expected to start start by Spring 2025, for a duration of 3 years. Further information is available here.

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Lithuania

Lithuania is represented in the ALT-EDIC consortium by the Ministry of Culture, a governmental institution responsible for formulating and implementing state cultural policies in the fields of professional and amateur arts, theatre, music, fine arts, cinema, museums, libraries, publishing, copyright and related rights, and the protection of cultural heritage and language.

In response to recent advances in generative AI, Lithuania is actively exploring the development of large language models (LLMs) and supporting the ecosystem for the Lithuanian language. The Ministry of Culture has initiated an information campaign to engage both public and private sector organisations in ALT-EDIC efforts. Several companies have already expressed their interest. Lithuania is also funding a number of projects through Recovery and Resilience Facility (Next Generation Lithuania), aimed at accumulating language resources for AI systems. It is anticipated that these projects will complement the goals of ALT-EDIC.

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