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Posted by NotInOurNames 10/28/2025

EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages(eurollm.io)
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ks2048 10/28/2025|
Their home page has link "Technical Report for EuroLLM" but links to the same page as their other link for release article on hugging face.

I suppose that's a typo and I found a technical report here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04079

wildredkraut 10/28/2025||
Wow this site, logo and everything is so ugly. But the FAX styled photos fits well to Europe's deficit.
Anonasty 10/29/2025|
What deficit?
wildredkraut 10/29/2025||
Confident politics and military, meaningful future proof investments, innovation in modern tech areas like CPU/GPU, AI, EV, Mobiles, etc. there is a lot.

What else, hmmm... Ohhh yes digitization, we "Germans" still can't let our FAXing machines go.

What we are good at, outsourcing and riding into deeper dependency of other continents.

nereid 10/29/2025||
ChatGPT is supporting all languages … not sure about the value.
danielam 10/28/2025||
Curiously, just came across this paper [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01996

dostick 10/28/2025||
What good does it do by having only include formal languages? For example there’s no Russian, while there’s now at least 8 million ethnic Russians living in Europe.
ks2048 10/28/2025||
From the paper:

As the aim of EuroLLM is to provide EU citizens with powerful and useful AI tools, it is critical that the model can also translate and answer questions in other European and non-European languages. With this in mind, we added support for 11 additional languages (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Galician, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian).

layer8 10/28/2025|||
Perfect is the enemy of the good.
imcritic 10/28/2025||
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isodev 10/28/2025|||
off topic but it’s absolutely stunning how Russia once fought the nazis and now Russia are the nazis.
Ylpertnodi 10/28/2025|||
I thought it was ukkraine?
imcritic 10/30/2025||||
Nothing has changed: Russia still fights the Nazis. There are countless videos of Ukrainian Nazis and even Ukrainian kids brainwashed into jumping and chanting nazi (anti-russian) chants.
notahacker 10/28/2025|||
tbf, the USSR fought the Nazis mainly because they didn't have much choice after Nazis turned on them a little while after they'd teamed up with those ideological enemies to invade Poland, so it's not like they hadn't put the effort into being on the wrong side of history :)
isodev 10/28/2025||
Indeed, we had a history teacher who used to joke about Russia being a “historical bully” in every age since they’ve been on the map.
simion314 10/28/2025|||
Oh, typical Ruzzian victim comlex, their brain can't understand why all their neighbors and "brother slavs" hate them, brainwashing for generations made them think in unatural logic where you need to negate anything a Ruzzian says and then you increase the probability 100 times to be the truth.

Ruzzian = a Russian Zed patriot , we use this notation to acknowledge that there still exists a small percentage of educated Russians that are not Ruscists.

imcritic 10/30/2025||
You just proved my point. You are a rusophobe.
simion314 11/1/2025||
Nope, I respect Russians and hate Ruzzians, Ruzzians hate Russians because they are not sucking Putin.
rob_c 10/28/2025||
This, I hope, is close to multi-modal in lingual terms. There's potentially a lot to learn from examining where this works/fails :D
fcanesin 10/29/2025||
Nice, congrats. But that O looks like an ass.
_ink_ 10/29/2025|
That's the corporate design of the industry: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649640
fbergen 10/29/2025||
EU should focus on making an attractive startup market and more European LLMs (and so many other things) will emerge
gyudin 10/28/2025||
How competitive is it performance wise to other open source models? Considering they took €50 millions in funding.
rvz 10/28/2025|
As expected, Europe finally catches up to 2024 and launches an LLM that barely competes against the heavyweights.

The US and China are running rings around Europe.

Mistral is an exception as it was funded by US VCs and they are a great example showing that without VC funding, Mistral would have been begging to the EU for a microsopic grant to train a LLM worse than Llama.

Anonasty 10/29/2025||
EuroLLM is not a business venture so you can only compare it to other publicly funded and developed models of the US and China.
AJ007 10/28/2025|||
Mistral is pretty much toast? Their models perform poorly and I'm not sure why anyone would use them. Maybe there is a catching up point somewhere in the future, hopefully.
laurentiurad 10/28/2025||
less exposure to a technology that doesn't bring that much revenue and it's not projected to do so in the upcoming years.
whimsicalism 10/28/2025|||
yep, Europe is demonstrating the same sort of strategic thinking that economic behemoths like the Smithsonian use
oytis 10/28/2025|||
Why wasting money on trying to compete at all then?
t43562 10/28/2025||
Every country needs a few plumbers and carpenters whether or not they are at the forefront of technology. Some money must be spent to give academics work to do so they can sharpen up their skills and perhaps teach the next set of students who might be more commercial
oytis 10/28/2025||
It would be a better use of the money to hire someone who has worked on actual frontier models to teach at European universities
t43562 10/28/2025||
If you could find one for the money, if they were happy to teach in the long term. If it wasn't better to have N for the price of 1. In other situations of import substitution I'm pretty sure people try to develop their local talent in addition to buying in experts.
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