United States, with OpenAi, Google or Anthropic; and China, with Deepseek or Alibaba, are the two great powers that are shaping the market of the artificial intelligence. But this also wants to be part of the European Union, which has presented its collaborative project Openeurollm.
It is, as explained in a statement, of the Union of Forces of the main artificial intelligence and research institutions in Europe to develop Open source artificial intelligence models. They describe it as “An unprecedented collaboration to advance the capacities of European”
Supposes a consortium of 20 companies, universities and supercomputing centers. Among them are names such as Charles University (Czech Republic), Helsinki University (Finland), Lightton firm (France) or Aleph Alpha Research (Germany). The Spanish representation corresponds to the company Prompsit Language Engineering and the National Supercomputing Center of Barcelona.
“Open source models will strengthen the capacity of European companies to compete”
The objective is the construction of a family of Multilingual and high performance models for commercial, industrial and public services. “Transparent and compatible open source models will democratize access to high quality AI technologies and strengthen the capacity of European companies to compete in a global market and public organizations to produce shocking public services”, Explain from Openeurollm.
The project, which has started on February 1, has a total budget of 37.4 million euros, of which 20.6 million come from the European Union European Program. In this sense, Openeurollm is aligned with the will of the community body to improve the competitiveness and digital sovereignty of Europe.
As explained by the project, Openeurollm will ensure that models, software, data and evaluation systems are completely open and can adjust to the specific needs of the industry and the public sector; and They will preserve linguistic and cultural diversity. For all this, it is cooperating with open source communities such as Laion, Open-SCI and OpenML, and with other experts in the field gathered in the Open Strategic Association Committee of the project.
From Openeurollm they ensure that the initiative is a sample of the type of infrastructure necessary to boost the development of European artificial intelligence products, as well as a reflection of the solidity of Transparency, openness and participation of the community, widely recognized values throughout the European technological ecosystem.
Openeurollm is understood as the European response to the different movements that have occurred in recent months and weeks in the field of artificial intelligence. The competition has been encounted with the launch of the latest Deepseek and Alibaba models, which claim to have higher and lowest products than those developed so far by OpenAI.
The application of the AI Law
The presentation of Openeurollm takes place in parallel to the entry into force, on February 2, of the first standards of the Artificial Intelligence Law of the European Union, Approved in August 2024. This is the first phase of implementation of the regulation, which is expected to be completed in 2026.
In this sense, artificial intelligence systems considered by regulations as D are already prohibited in Europeand “unacceptable risk”. These include predictive surveillance tools, social score systems and biometric identification that categorize people for race, sexual orientation and religion; or those who use manipulative or subliminal techniques and those who infer emotions in workplaces or studies.
Suppliers, manufacturers or distributors of this type of systems will face fines of up to 35 million euros or up to 7% of its total annual turnover. In Spain it will be the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA), located at Coruña, the person in charge of supervising compliance with the law.
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