LISBON, Could 28, 2025 | Multilingual open-source initiatives EuroLLM and OpenEuroLLM have joined forces to safe 3 million GPU hours on Leonardo – certainly one of Europe’s strongest supercomputers – to develop a groundbreaking artificial dataset masking 40 European languages.
The initiative was chosen below the EuroHPC AI Manufacturing facility Giant Scale name recognizing its potential to advance Europe’s management in multilingual synthetic intelligence.
On the coronary heart of this initiative is a mission to construct strategic autonomy for Europe in AI improvement. By producing high-quality, ethically sourced artificial knowledge, it addresses a long-standing hole in linguistic illustration, specifically for low-resource and minority languages.
André Martins, Chief Scientific Officer at Unbabel and EuroLLM mission co-lead stated:
“By becoming a member of forces by means of EuroLLM and OpenEuroLLM, we’re bringing collectively the analysis power and open-source ethos wanted to deal with certainly one of Europe’s largest AI challenges: linguistic inclusion at scale. This mission is about guaranteeing Europe owns its language knowledge, displays its cultural range, and units its personal requirements in accountable AI improvement.”
The GPU allocation will energy the MultiSynt method, a key element of the mission which seeks to handle one of the crucial persistent bottlenecks in multilingual LLM improvement: the dearth of high-quality pre-training knowledge.
“This is a vital step in securing massive sufficient computing energy to construct the OpenEuroLLM’s household of open LLMs. I’m additionally glad that this has been accomplished in collaboration with the skilled crew from the EuroLLM mission. The purpose of this subproject is to discover multilingual artificial knowledge creation and consider their use with the intention to attain the next widespread purpose: constructing high-quality multilingual LLMs for all European languages and past.” – notes Jan Hajic, Charles College, coordinator of the OpenEuroLLM mission.
Whereas most artificial knowledge technology for giant language fashions so far has centered on English, MultiSynt will create the primary complete multilingual artificial dataset designed particularly for pre-training. By leveraging generative fashions to reinforce and diversify present content material, it can assist the broader goals of EuroLLM and OpenEuroLLM: constructing open-source, culturally grounded, and linguistically various AI for Europe.
This system will assist linguistic range, open entry, and knowledge high quality and aligns with the broader targets of the European Fee’s Digital Decade and the AI Act.
The awarded 3 million hours replicate a robust endorsement of the mission’s technical advantage and strategic worth.
The initiative will probably be executed by means of phased releases of the artificial dataset.
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About EuroLLM
The EuroLLM mission contains Unbabel, Instituto Superior Técnico, the College of Edinburgh, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Université Paris-Saclay, Aveni, Sorbonne College, Naver Labs, and the College of Amsterdam. Collectively they created EuroLLM-9B, a multilingual AI mannequin supporting all 24 official EU languages. Developed with assist from Horizon Europe, the European Analysis Council, and EuroHPC, this open-source LLM goals to reinforce Europe’s digital sovereignty and foster AI innovation.
About OpenEuroLLM
Bringing collectively 20 of Europe’s main AI firms, analysis establishments and EuroHPC centres, the OpenEuroLLM mission is creating a brand new technology of open supply massive language fashions for European languages. Co-funded by the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme, the mission is laying the foundations for AI infrastructure that may improve competitiveness, resilience, and digital sovereignty.
About EuroHPC
The European Excessive Efficiency Computing Joint Enterprise (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative between the EU, European nations, and personal companions to develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe.
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