Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Europe Picks an Italian Startup to Build a 400-Billion-Parameter Sovereign Model
The Commission's EUROPA consortium, led by Domyn, will train an open model in all 24 European Union (EU) languages on up to 2.5 percent of the bloc's supercomputing capacity.
The European Commission has named the EUROPA consortium, led by the Italian company Domyn (formerly iGenius), as the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The mandate is to build a 400-billion-parameter open model using a mixture-of-ex…
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