“In that respect, we are starting from scratch — the project started on Saturday [February 1],” Hajič said. “But we have been preparing the project for a year [the tender process opened in February 2024].”
From academia and research, organizations spanning Czechia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Norway are part of the OpenEuroLLM cohort, in addition to the EuroHPC centers. From the corporate world, Finland’s AMD-owned AI lab Silo AI is on board, as are Aleph Alpha (Germany), Ellamind (Germany), Prompsit Language Engineering (Spain), and LightOn (France).