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Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026Published at 7:02 AM EDT · New York
EU Picks an Italian Startup to Build a 400-Billion-Parameter Open Model in 24 Languages
The European Commission named the Domyn-led EUROPA consortium as the sole winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge, granting it up to 2.5 percent of the European Union (EU) supercomputing network EuroHPC for a year.
The European Commission selected the EUROPA consortium, led by the Milan-based company Domyn (formerly iGenius), as the sole winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge, the Commission announced. The mandate is to build a 400-billion-paramete…
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