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GPT-4, Claude, Grok, Llama and Gemini: the most important AI language models all originate from the USA. With the OpenGPT-X project and the Teuken-7B language model, a European AI infrastructure is now to be established.
The European research project OpenGPT-X has published a large language model for artificial intelligence applications. The model, called “Teuken-7B”, has been made available for download on the “Hugging Face” platform.
OpenGPT-X is a European research and development project that was launched in early 2022. The aim of the project is to develop a large AI language model that meets the requirements of European values, data protection standards and linguistic diversity. “Teuken-7B” was trained from scratch with the 24 official languages of the EU and comprises seven billion parameters.
US supremacy in AI language models
To date, almost all relevant AI language models in the western world have come from the USA. These include GPT-4 from OpenAI, Claude from AI start-up Anthropic, Grok from Elon Musk’s xAI , Llama from Facebook group Meta and Gemini from Google. Experts estimate that the GPT variant GPT-4o from OpenAI alone has around 200 billion parameters.
The European model “Teuken-7B” is now to be made freely available worldwide and thus offer an alternative for science and companies based on public research. Researchers and companies can also use the open source model in commercial projects and use the code in their own artificial intelligence applications.
European linguistic diversity
The OpenGPT-X project is being led by the two Fraunhofer Institutes for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS) and for Integrated Circuits (IIS). The TU Dresden, Forschungszentrum Jülich and companies such as Aleph Alpha and IONOS SE are also involved.
“Our model has demonstrated its capabilities across a wide range of languages, and we hope that as many people as possible will adapt or further develop the model for their own work and applications,” said Stefan Wrobel, Institute Director at Fraunhofer IAIS.
The aim is to make a contribution both within the scientific community and together with companies from different sectors in order to meet the growing demand for transparent and customizable generative artificial intelligence solutions.
dpa
