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The University of Turku and one of Europe’s largest private AI labs Silo AI, with its large language model (LLM) arm SiloGen, are today announcing a large-scale initiative on open and trustworthy LLMs. SiloGen launches a consortium together with TurkuNLP research group to develop a family of open LLMs, including the world’s largest open source LLM. The initiative aims to ensure European digital sovereignty and democratise access to LLMs. 

The third batch of Finnish research projects to utilize LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer, have been chosen, and will run on the system using its massive GPU capacity. The projects are, for example, creating Large Language Models for all official European languages, developing novel optimized vaccine formulations and more. The resources were granted in the Third Finnish LUMI Extreme Scale Call, which shared resources from Finland’s country share of the LUMI resources. The accepted project...