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

Post by BDPW » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 6:27 PM UTC

deaux wrote: post #140

whimsicalism wrote: post #104

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> When you talk to most EU business owners, even in tech, the limiting factor isn't regulations. This being the #1 reason is such a tired trope. Okay, what is the limiting factor? Because when I talk to EU business owners (admittedly, very few) - they point to lack of big EU capital markets, which is directly downstream of the policy environment. And when I talk to top EU human capital, they all point to the lack of…

> I think it is a complete misreading to point to protectionism as the reason for Chinese success, but having a big unified domestic market for consumers along with massive saving rates and capital controls probably does help. Capital controls are protectionist measures, but anyway, no. > Okay, what is the limiting factor? Let's look at which countries have a significant local software industry compared to population…

Post by cess11 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 6:32 PM UTC

purrcat259 wrote: post #230

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How is "Marsaxlokk" really pronounced? I've heard that word a few times, but never from a native. Google translate can't help me here, as it doesn't seem to have Maltese text-to-speech.

Read with English pronunciation, closest would be mar-sa-shlock.

Post by ks2048 » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 6:35 PM UTC

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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…

Post by ChocolateGod » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

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fsckboy wrote: post #182

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Is Ireland the only country to bring in two languages, Irish/Gaelic and English? Is English an official language of any other EU countries?

English is an official EU language because Regulation 1 Article 1 says so [0] and hasn’t been changed. In practice, English is the most widely used language in EU institutions, so it would be have been silly to remove it after Brexit. [0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:01...

Post by whimsicalism » Tue, Oct 28, 2025, 6:44 PM UTC

sofixa wrote: post #217

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Wouldn't go that far. EU policymakers have good intentions, I believe - but ultimately are products of their environment and cultural inclination. The EU is such a bizarre place because they treat capital and entrepreneurs with such massive distrust, but never really bothered getting rid of the quasi-static entrenched hierarchies from feudalism? Like I'll go to the UK or France and there will just be massive swathes…

> France and there will just be massive swathes of land owned by the nobility or 'former' nobility Yeah, no, this isn't even remotely true.