Morning Edition · Saturday, June 27, 2026
EU backs a 400-billion-parameter open model as a sovereignty play
Italy's Domyn, formerly iGenius, will build the model with the EUROPA consortium and European Commission support, with release planned within a year.
The European Union is backing the development of an open large language model as part of an effort to build technological sovereignty, according to AI ML Big Data. The Italian company Domyn, previously known as iGenius, will build a model w…
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