The European Comission has granted €20 million to STEP, the European consortium that will create the AI model. It will be open source, European regulations-compliant and unlike Deepseek, its dataset will also be open source and will be trained in 35 languages.
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Hey! Look at me! I also want to be a dumpster fire.
At the very least the name is much more technically accurate by putting LLM instead of AI in there.
Who actually wants AI?
To be fair — I wouldn’t mind an open source AI model that works decently well and isn’t made and selectively propagandised by China or Meta.
Obviously I’m sick of all the LLM enshittification — but there’s a couple tasks I wouldn’t mind having a FOSS LLM for.
I could get down with that.
I do!
Me too
I mean a whole lot of people are using AI for a whole lot of different things. It’s easy to hate on, but it’s here to stay.
Well, investing a mere €20 millions won’t achieve much. On the other hand I’m glad they aren’t wasting more money on it.
Wasn’t DeepSeek v3 trained with single-digit million dollars budget?
Probably not. There’s a lot of reasons to be skeptical of those claimed numbers.
Iirc leaked numbers says something closer to 1 billion USD
with that little money split between that many institutions, nothing will come of it.
It’s especially pointless ever since DeepSeek R1 dropped. Now everyone has the recipie to build state of the art models, so it’s only a matter of time until European companies will create one.
Have all of these people forgotten what Open is supposed to mean?
Why
