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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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Post by extraduder_ire »

ks2048 wrote: post #245
extraduder_ire wrote: post #175

From the EuroLLM-9B page on hugginface; >You need to agree to share your contact information to access this model Is this common? I've never seen it on the site before, and it isn't on the smaller model. What are they collecting this information for?

I'm not sure which models require this and why, but I've come across it. e.g. the llama models, https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

I'm less surprised about llama having that requirement with its custom license, but EuroLLM-9B is Apache 2.0.

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

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Post by blitzar »

htrp wrote: post #17

>The EuroLLM Team brings together some of the brightest minds in AI including Unbabel, Instituto Tecnico Lisbon, the University of Edinburgh, Instituto de Telecommunicacoes, Université Paris-Saclay, Aveni, Sorbonne University, Naver Labs, and the University of Amsterdam. >Europe is the only continent in the world to have a large public network of supercomputers that are managed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroH…

This is the extent of the moat.

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

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Post by thefz »

deaux wrote: post #99
whimsicalism wrote: post #57

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> What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start a…

> The same people who clamor about the EU regulations are the ones who hate on the EU for their protectionist measures against US tech

Bingo, my friend. And good old american exceptionalism taught since the first days of school.

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

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Post by arw0n »

tirant wrote: post #128
mikrl wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Brit I feel very at home when hearing/reading Dutch and Frisian. It’s a reminder that England and the Low Countries share a lot of close history all the way back to Anglo-Saxon times; of being fishers, traders, burghers and mercenaries moving around the North Sea chasing opportunities, spreading and augmenting languages. “Brea, bûter en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk”

Not only on the language but also in gastronomy and architecture. When I see old towns in UK I usually think about Dutch towns but just without any biking infrastructure.

Dialect of Liverpool is called scouse, after a popular local dish -> lobscouse/Labskaus is very popular (love/hate really) in northern Germany as well.

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

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Post by englishrookie »

skissane wrote: post #424
UebVar wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arabic, even. An outlier, as it is AFAIK the only arabic dialect that is not written with the arabic alphabet. Also it's far removed from other arabic dialects.

Maltese isn’t an Arabic dialect. Yes, the grammar and phonology and core function words derive from Arabic, but more than half of the vocabulary comes from Italian/Sicilian-North African Arabic may borrow a few words from Italian here and there (just like English does), but not >50% of their vocabulary.

By your reasoning, English isn't a Germanic language since over half of its vocabulary comes from Latin or French.

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Post by biohazard2 »

htrp wrote: post #17

>The EuroLLM Team brings together some of the brightest minds in AI including Unbabel, Instituto Tecnico Lisbon, the University of Edinburgh, Instituto de Telecommunicacoes, Université Paris-Saclay, Aveni, Sorbonne University, Naver Labs, and the University of Amsterdam. >Europe is the only continent in the world to have a large public network of supercomputers that are managed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroH…

>Europe is the only continent in the world to have a large public network of supercomputers that are managed by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

Who would have thought that Europe is the only continent to have a network of supercomputers managed by Europe⸮

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

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Post by ideasarecool »

loandbehold wrote: post #10

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.

Term support is vague. Can you do basic interaction in most other languages? Sure. Is it anywhere close to competence it has in english? No. Most models seem to just translate english responses at beginners simplistic monotone level.
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