LISBON, Could 28, 2025 | Multilingual open-source initiatives EuroLLM and OpenEuroLLM have joined forces to safe 3 million GPU hours on Leonardo – one in every of Europe’s strongest supercomputers – to develop a groundbreaking artificial dataset masking 40 European languages.
The initiative was chosen underneath the EuroHPC AI Manufacturing unit Massive 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 challenge 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 sort out one in every of Europe’s greatest AI challenges: linguistic inclusion at scale. This challenge is about guaranteeing Europe owns its language knowledge, displays its cultural variety, and units its personal requirements in accountable AI improvement.”
The GPU allocation will energy the MultiSynt strategy, a key part of the challenge which seeks to handle one of the vital persistent bottlenecks in multilingual LLM improvement: the dearth of high-quality pre-training knowledge.
“This is a crucial step in securing giant sufficient computing energy to construct the OpenEuroLLM’s household of open LLMs. I’m additionally glad that this has been finished in collaboration with the skilled workforce from the EuroLLM challenge. The objective of this subproject is to discover multilingual artificial knowledge creation and consider their use with a purpose to attain a better frequent objective: constructing high-quality multilingual LLMs for all European languages and past.” – notes Jan Hajic, Charles College, coordinator of the OpenEuroLLM challenge.
Whereas most artificial knowledge technology for giant language fashions up to now has targeted 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 should assist the broader goals of EuroLLM and OpenEuroLLM: constructing open-source, culturally grounded, and linguistically various AI for Europe.
This system will assist linguistic variety, open entry, and knowledge high quality and aligns with the broader goals of the European Fee’s Digital Decade and the AI Act.
The awarded 3 million hours replicate a robust endorsement of the challenge’s technical advantage and strategic worth.
The initiative will likely be executed by means of phased releases of the artificial dataset.
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About EuroLLM
The EuroLLM challenge 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 challenge is creating a brand new technology of open supply giant language fashions for European languages. Co-funded by the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme, the challenge 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 international locations, and personal companions to develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe.
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