AI in the EU

EU wants to create its own AI models

A new project aims to create world-leading AI models to compete with, among others, American and Chinese AI models.

Ove Kaufeldt

Published 5 February 2025 - 17:03

Now Europe wants to take up the fight with American and Chinese AI models like ChatGPT and Deepseek. Therefore, a group of European AI companies, universities, and research institutions have started a project with the goal of creating world-leading AI models, so-called Large Language Models (LLM). The project is called Open Euro LLM and is part of the EU project "European High-Performance Computing" (Euro HPC), which means that the project will have access to the European supercomputers included there. The idea is also that Open Euro LLM, just like Meta's Llama models, will be released as open source.

The project is planned to last for three years and will result in a family of AI models that will be launched gradually during the course of the project. The EU Commission's initial contribution to Open Euro LLM is 54 million euros, equivalent to approximately 620 million kronor. What the total cost of the project will be or how it will be distributed is not specified.

From the Swedish side, AI Sweden, Sweden's national center for the application of artificial intelligence, is participating, already working on developing AI models.