EU Picks EUROPA Consortium to Build Sovereign 400 Billion Parameter Open Source AI Model

[Fox]

The European Commission selected the EUROPA Consortium led by Italian enterprise Domyn as the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The consortium gets a dedicated 6000-chip NVIDIA Blackwell cluster and up to 2.5 percent of EuroHPC's high-performance supercomputing capacity. The task is building a sovereign open-source model exceeding 400 billion parameters trained natively across all 24 official EU languages. The goal is that European universities hospitals and public institutions can deploy frontier-grade AI without routing sensitive training data through non-EU cloud infrastructure. This is Europe making a serious bet on technological sovereignty in AI rather than depending entirely on American models.

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[Solo Buffer]

Open source training makes this interesting. If it's genuinely open the benefits extend beyond EU institutions

[Kev49]

Italian company Domyn leading this is an interesting choice. Not the obvious EU AI powerhouses like France or Germany

[alwaysRock40]

Training natively in 24 languages rather than translating is the right approach. Translation loses nuance

[Hawk]

2.5 percent of EuroHPC capacity is significant. That's a real commitment of shared European infrastructure

[Depot16]

This positions Europe as third pole in AI alongside US and China. Whether they can execute is the question