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

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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.