European AI allies unveils LLM alternative to Big Tech, DeepSeek
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As China’s DeepSeek threatens to dismantle Silicon Valley’s AI monopoly, the OpenEuroLLM has launched an alternative to tech’s global order.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17978607

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A European alliance has emerged with an alternative to tech’s global order.

They call their project OpenEuroLLM. Like DeepSeek, they aim to develop next-generation open-source language models — but their agenda is very different. Their mission: forging European AI that will foster digital leaders and impactful public services across the continent.

To support these objectives, OpenEuroLLM is building a family of high-performing, multilingual large language foundation models. The models will be available for commercial, industrial, and public services.

Over 20 leading European research institutions, companies, and high-performance computing (HPC) centres have enlisted in the the project. Leading their alliance is Jan Hajič, a renowned computational linguist at Charles University, Czechia, and Peter Sarlin, the co-founder of Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, which was acquired last year by US chipmaker AMD for $665mn.

They’re joined by an array of European tech luminaries. Among them are Aleph Alpha, the leading light of Germany’s AI sector, Finland’s CSC, which hosts one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers., and France’s Lights On, which recently became Europe’s first publicly-traded GenAI company.

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  • Anyone@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Is this going to be another misnomer for a model that isn’t actually open? The quote doesn’t give me much hope.

    The quote says it will be fully open. What makes you think it will not?

    • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      There isn’t really much in the way of meaningful open source AI. What people call open source AI is really more analogous to releasing a pre-compiled binary with a license that gives you permission to reverse engineer it however you want. It’s very odd.

      It is at least better than just forcing you to run an app that just connects to their computer that’s actually running a binary equivalent that you don’t even have access to so they can keep track of everything you type, which is what OpenAI does, but it’s still not really open source.

      • Anyone@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        This is pure guesswork. What makes you think it will not be fully open source for now?

        And who has said here that OpenAI/ChatGPT is open source? This hype around open source has only been around with Deepseek recently (although it is really not open as we know).

        • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          58 minutes ago

          Yeah, it is pure guesswork. It’s guesswork based on the people involved, the history of similar projects, and the language used around AI. Other then just taking everything at face value uncritically that’s all we have for now, because they haven’t done anything substantive. Just made vague promises. I can always hope to be wrong, but counting on tech bros to just do the right thing unprompted is foolish no matter what continent they’re on.

          And nobody said OpenAI is open source. I didn’t even imply that I believed anyone had said it. You’re just making weird accusations for no reason now. I just was trying to be nice and agree that AI “open source” is at least less terrible than OpenAI. Sorry for trying to look on the bright side of things, I guess.