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Portugal launches Amália open-source AI model
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro unveils the Amália large language model, backed by €5.5 million in EU recovery funds, as part of Europe's push for AI sovereignty.
Portugal’s Amália is a sovereign large language model released as open-source, trained on Deucalion and MareNostrum 5 supercomputers. With €5.5M from EU recovery funds, the model targets public-sector and enterprise applications, offering a Eurocentric alternative to US foundation models.
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