From open weights to AI that can genuinely be inspected and rebuilt The word “open” is used so broadly in artificial intelligence that it risks losing its meaning. One lab publishes model weights, another releases inference code but not training code, and a third publishes a technical report while withholding the data pipeline. Each offers […]
The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence is making something increasingly visible that we often tend to overlook: the digital ecosystem has a very tangible physical foundation. AI models, cloud services and public digital applications run inside buildings filled with processors, storage systems, power supplies, networks, cooling loops and backup power systems. Data centers consume electricity […]
Most discussions about artificial intelligence begin with models. Which model is stronger, faster, cheaper or more capable? For public administrations and private enterprises, however, the decisive question is different: what data does the model reason over, who governs that data, how is it connected to real workflows, and how can every answer be traced back […]
Artificial intelligence is entering public administration, healthcare, education, local government and state security services. The central question is not whether public institutions will use AI. They already will. The real question is who will control the infrastructure, the data, the models, the logs and the rules of use. Public authorities can either build internal capacity […]
An approval that changes the scale of ambition The approval of the proposal “Enhancing multilingual foundation models through lexicographic grounding: advancing GlossAPI for Apertus Greek language integration” by the Swiss AI Initiative is more than a welcome grant decision. It is a recognition that Greek should be treated as critical digital infrastructure in the age […]
A policy case for Greek as a national and European language data infrastructure Large language models depend on vast amounts of text, but scale without legal clarity produces fragile systems. Datasets built on opaque web crawling cannot guarantee lawful reuse, redistribution, or long-term sustainability. The German Commons provides a clear alternative: 154.56 billion tokens of […]
Our mission at WeatherXM is to create the largest decentralised weather station network. A significant challenge in this direction is how our weather stations should be distributed around the world. The challenging part has to do with Earth’s surface, which is not uniform (a good thing in so many other aspects of our life!). Each […]
We would like to invite you to “Why and How to Switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL” webinar. If you’re considering a migration, this is your opportunity to get a strategic roadmap that helps you reduce Oracle costs and unlock the full potential of Postgres. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Presenters:Mostafa Zakaria, Sales Engineer […]
Nominate any individuals or organisations now at https://go.mydata.org/nominate! Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged.You may make as many nominations as you like. Hello to all members, interested people and the wider MyData community. Following our launch event in June (recording here if you missed it), we are pleased to announce that our brand new award programme […]
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of AI, opening up new opportunities for research and industry applications. However, LLMs demonstrate impressive capabilities only in high-resource languages, in particular in English, while their performance varies substantially across different languages. Especially in the case of low-resourced languages, such as Greek, existing open-source LLMs are underperforming […]