The European Union is backing a major AI initiative, OpenEuroLLM, in a bid to counter the dominance of Silicon Valley and China in artificial intelligence.
The initiative is being led by Jan Hajič, a computational linguist at Charles University in Czechia, and Peter Sarlin, co-founder of Silo AI.
“The models that OpenEuroLLM will build will be fully open, to exploit the advantages of Open Source that have been so successful in software development in the past,” Hajič told InfoWorld. This approach will allow the models to comply with EU regulations more easily, he said, adding that so-called open models from outside the EU are either only partially open (for example, just the model weights), or there is no transparency about their provenance, making it impossible to be sure whether they are unbiased.
