EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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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seydor 10/28/2025|

It's just another Horizon2020 grant, people. Don't be overly harsh to a bunch of academics who are just earning their living.

giorgioz 10/28/2025||

I didn't know of the grant! https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding...

It seems the new version is called Horizon Europe

oytis 10/28/2025|||

I thought research grants were to make novel discoveries, not to replicate what industry has long done. Unless we are at the point where we study US as an alien civilization

tonyhart7 10/28/2025||

Yeah people comparing this to SOTA model is too harsh

moralestapia 10/28/2025||

Benchmarks?

Edit: Thanks, @Bengalilol.

The 1.7B one looks meh.

But really solid numbers on the 9B! Props to the team!

Bengalilol 10/28/2025||

1.7B

https://huggingface.co/utter-project/EuroLLM-1.7B#results

https://huggingface.co/utter-project/EuroLLM-9B#results

geretnal 10/28/2025||

Finally!

sherinjosephroy 10/28/2025||

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pembrook 10/28/2025|

All the models from all the big providers (even the Chinese models!) support all of these languages already.

The big win for accessibility has already been won...3 years ago.

viktorcode 10/28/2025|||

I asked a Finnish person how good an answer about the language example from ChatGPT was. It turned out to be a hallucination, a confidently sounding nonsense.

The quality of internet trained models degrade very fast with language material size

airspresso 10/28/2025|||

Hallucinations and output quality are two different problems. Hallucinations are usually expressed in perfect sounding sentences by the LLM, that's what makes it so convincing to end users.

pembrook 10/29/2025|||

I live in Finland, ChatGPT is great at Finnish and far better at it than EuroLLM.

EuroLLM doesn't even beat the open source Gemma 2, and Gemma 3 is already out.

viktorcode 10/29/2025||

Maybe things have improved since that time (about a year ago). But my question was along the lines of "is it true that in Finnish this word means that?" and ChatGPT promptly confirmed with nonsense

unkivkask 10/29/2025|||

>All the models from all the big providers (even the Chinese models!) support all of these languages already.

As a speaker of one of those languages...no, they definitely don't. You can get some words out, but it's not necessarily anything sensible

nellyspageli 10/28/2025||

Could you adjust the title from:

"all official 24 EU languages” to "all 24 official EU languages"

Philpax 10/28/2025||

The former is used on the website itself.

scoot 10/28/2025||

@dang

syahlanahda 10/29/2025||

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marsven_422 10/28/2025||

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mezod 10/28/2025||

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ks2048 10/28/2025||

Catalan is included. It's called one of the "11 additional languages" in the paper.

whimsicalism 10/28/2025|||

yeah best to lean in more on national and linguistic fragmentation, diversity has always been one of the EUs strengths

mezod 10/28/2025||

if that's the argument, let's drop all the languages and focus on english :)

jimbob45 10/28/2025||

You’ve got to pick one as a lingua franca. English is already popular but Spanish, French, or Esperanto would all work just fine.

constantcrying 10/28/2025||

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oytis 10/28/2025|

Well, one comforting point is that we are spending much less than the US.

lawlessone 10/28/2025||

Can't believe we wasted all that money on CERN when we could have had the best word predictor.

Maksadbek 10/28/2025|

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corford 10/28/2025||

I'm in Europe and can go into my local supermarkets on Saturday and Sunday from 0900 to 2100. I can send a SEPA wire transfer on the weekend and the recipient gets it within seconds. My nearest big shopping mall (hundreds of shops) is open until 23:00 on weekends. My dentist is open on Saturdays. So yeah it works on weekends...

utopiah 10/28/2025||

In Flanders, northern part of Belgium, you can get next day delivery on Sundays.

This kind of comment is just trolling, no added value.

tomhow 10/29/2025|||

Please don't post trollish flamebait on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

utopiah 10/28/2025|||

What's the joke here, worker rights?

Maksadbek 10/28/2025|||

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13278447/german-cou...

igleria 10/28/2025|||

joking about people having too many worker rights is tonally comparable to a dog that won't let a cow eat grass

ozim 10/28/2025||

Also Fridays and other days it is only between 9-15.