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EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lithuanian and Latvian are Baltic languages. Nothing to do with Slavic...

Balto-Slavic branch divides into Baltic and Slavic language groups so nothing wrong here

Yup, most of Eastern Europe are Balto-Slavic. While the division from the Eastern Slavic languages (Russian, Belarussian, Ukranian, etc) is distant, they are still Slavic. From Eastern Europe, only Estonian is not a Slavic language.

Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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For those curious, the 24 official languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. Maltese, interestingly, is the only Afro-Asiatic derived language. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the three Uralic languages. All the others ar…

I read, write and speak Maltese, AMA if you are curious about the language.

What is the name of Maltese in Maltese? Like “el español” in Spanish, it’s neat to know what languages call themselves

Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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For those curious, the 24 official languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. Maltese, interestingly, is the only Afro-Asiatic derived language. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the three Uralic languages. All the others ar…

Tomorrow there are elections in the Netherlands, and two parties are proposing adding Frysian to that list: https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/kies-voor-taal/

Best get to retraining those models.

Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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Aren't all frontier models already able to use all these languages? Support for specific languages doesn't need to be built in, LLMs support all languages because they are trained on multilingual data.

Meh, it depends a lot on the dataset, which are heavily skewed towards the main languages. For example they almost always confuse Czech and Slovak and often swap one for the other in middle of chats

But the only way to unskew it is to remove main language data because there isn't really any to add, no?

Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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Because training frontier model is expensive and only US and China have capital structure to raise tens of billions of dollars to do it.

being able to train new frontier models is the new equivalent to nuclear capabilities. i predict at some point countries will get CIA'ed when they publish plans to build a large data center. Similar to the time when they got CIA'ed when announcing plans for new nuclear plants.

They are already CIA'ed on a regular basis for much less than that.

Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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Aren't all frontier models already able to use all these languages? Support for specific languages doesn't need to be built in, LLMs support all languages because they are trained on multilingual data.

> because they are trained on multilingual data But they were not trained on government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.

The entirety of the internet vs government-sanctioned homegrown EU data.

Re: EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages

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For those curious, the 24 official languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. Maltese, interestingly, is the only Afro-Asiatic derived language. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the three Uralic languages. All the others ar…

I read, write and speak Maltese, AMA if you are curious about the language.

Tunisians claim they can understand Maltese with minimum effort, is it reciprocal? How close is Maltese to arabic / tunisian dialect ?
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