Open weights LLM's supporting European languages

john · July 15, 2025, 6:50am

This OpenEuroLLM seems very promising.

OpenEuroLLM (openeurollm.eu)

What it is: A pan-European initiative building a family of foundation models under fully open-source principles: datasets, code, training, evaluation, and tools. strategic-technologies.europa.eu+4openeurollm.eu+4It’s FOSS News+4
Support & funding: Consortium of 20+ universities, research institutes, AI companies, and HPC centers, funded (~€20–50 M) by the EU Digital Europe Programme. Received the Strategic Technologies STEP Seal. X (formerly Twitter)+5strategic-technologies.europa.eu+5dedep.eu+5
Goals: Transparency, compliance (AI Act), accessibility for businesses and SMEs; multilingual, culturally diverse LLMs with community involvement. dedep.eu+5openeurollm.eu+5strategic-technologies.europa.eu+5
Timeline: Consortium commenced Feb 1, 2025. Still in R&D; no models publicly released yet. InfoQ

john · July 15, 2025, 6:51am

Update it does seem that some ollama models are published
for example jobautomation/OpenEuroLLM-Finnish

john · July 15, 2025, 6:52am

This one seems also promising and you can find models here

What it is: A European open-source, multilingual LLM project covering all 24 EU official languages (plus others), trained on ~4 trillion tokens. YouTube+12eurollm.io+12Hugging Face+12
Model releases: They’ve released models at 1.7 B and 9 B parameters (EuroLLM‑9B launched Dec 2024), with code, data, and checkpoints available. openeurollm.eu+3Google Sites+3Hugging Face+3
Infrastructure: Supported by EuroHPC and trained on HPC infra (256 H100 GPUs). Instrumental in multilingual benchmarks—EuroLLM‑9B ranks top among European open models. LinkedIn+3Google Sites+3Hugging Face+3
Community & documentation: Full project transparency: technical reports, model cards, Hugging Face, GitHub, and direct usage via NVIDIA NIM. openeurollm.eu+6LinkedIn+6build.nvidia.com+6