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  "title": "the EU is funding its own open-source 400B+ frontier model, built on European supercomputers",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ue8yy5/the_eu_is_funding_its_own_opensource_400b/",
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  "published_at": "2026-06-24T09:45:29+00:00",
  "transcript": "the Commission just named the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. it's a consortium called EUROPA, led by an Italian company called Domyn, and the plan is an open-source model over 400 billion parameters, covering all 24 official EU languages, trained entirely on European public supercomputing infrastructur\n\nthe actual prize is compute, not cash. the project gets up to 2.5% of total EuroHPC capacity for one year on AI-optimised supercomputers\n\nfor a region whose weakness has always been GPU access more than research, that's the part that matters\n\nworth staying grounded though. there's no delivery timeline, no training cost, and no measurable definition of \"frontier-level\" yet, and a challenge win is a commitment, not a shipped product. a one-year compute window is modest next to the multi-year runways OpenAI and Anthropic command\n\nstill, an open model built around 24 languages from the start instead of English-first is structurally different from what US labs ship. curious what others think about it \n\nSource: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/domyn-led-europa-consortium-wins-eu-frontier-ai-grand-challenge\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[70 upvotes] It's a great initiative from EU. The model most possibly will be 400B+ MoE, 40B+ active parameters, but let's make it clear: It won't be at a level of let's say GLM-5.2.\n\nHowever, the power of this initiative is that this AI model inference will be provided by EU (not a company) to all public sectors or startups in EU at a great price or even free.\n\n[57 upvotes] The ridiculous thing is that they think they can just pick a winner. \n\nIf they're serious about it they should be investing in many attempts at building frontier models to create an ecosystem that can experiment and build. Let the ecosystem steer to the best solution. \n\n[42 upvotes] chatgpt dont use capital letters so my post looks organic\n\n[27 upvotes] So basically a 3years old level of model where it's trained on \"24 official languages\" for marketing, since LLMs are very efficient on learning languages, so there's no need for that.\n\nClassic EU thing.\n\n[24 upvotes] This should be the most inefficient way to do anything, I can almost predict the failure of the project. ",
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