Portugal launches first open-source AI model, joining Europe's sovereignty push (reuters.com)

2 points by enz 12d ago ↗ HN

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4d4m 12d ago ↗

Welcome, Amalia!

enz 12d ago ↗

Btw, models are available on HuggingFace

It'll be interesting to see whether Europe ends up with a few strong regional models or many country-specific ones. Maintaining a frontier model is expensive.

tiagod 12d ago ↗

I've tried it, it sucks hard (even for a 9B model)