The OpenEuroLLM (Open European Family of Large Language Models) project has started on February 1st, 2025.
The project aims at building a family of high-performance, multilingual, open-source large language foundation models that can be further fine-tuned for commercial, industrial and public services.
The project consortium is coordinated by Charles University (Czechia) and co-led by AMD Silo AI (Finland), and gathers 20 leading European research institutions, companies and EuroHPC centres. The ALT-EDIC will bring to the project its ability for linguistic data creation and management, language technology evaluation, and community building.
Further information on the project is available here.
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.