Morning Edition · Saturday, June 27, 2026
EU Picks Italy's Domyn to Build a 400-Billion-Parameter Sovereign Model
The Domyn-led EUROPA consortium won the European Commission's Frontier AI Grand Challenge with a mandate to release an open Mixture-of-Experts model covering all 24 official European Union (EU) languages.
The European Commission has selected the Domyn-led EUROPA consortium to build an open-source frontier model of more than 400 billion parameters using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, a design that runs only the relevant portion of the mod…
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