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 […]
The future of AI is not something that will simply happen to us. It is the result of choices about who designs technology, who owns it, who controls it, and to whom they are accountable. One of the most dangerous ways we talk about Artificial Intelligence today is as if it were a natural phenomenon. […]
A language model built for a specific linguistic community AMALIA is an important example of what it means to build an open language model not as a generic commercial product, but as a public research infrastructure for a specific linguistic community. Its central goal is clear: European Portuguese should not be treated as a secondary […]
The trap of the US-China AI race The American debate on artificial intelligence is increasingly shaped by one simple but dangerous sentence: if we slow down, China will overtake us. This sentence has become a political shortcut. It allows major technology companies and their allies to describe regulation, safety testing and public accountability as threats […]
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 […]
European low cost, open source local LLMs as a strategic alternative The global AI narrative remains focused on ever larger language models, demanding massive computational resources and reinforcing dependence on a handful of providers. As critics such as Gary Marcus have argued, this path leads to diminishing returns without resolving fundamental issues of reasoning and […]
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 […]
The rapid evolution of fully open large language models represents a transformative moment for countries that possess rich linguistic and cultural heritage. Over the past two years, the global AI community has shown that high-performance LLMs can be built openly, with transparent pipelines, published datasets and weights, and licenses that support both research and commercial […]
+RESILIENT puts together a 4-helix partnership of 8 MED countries to tackle the need for innovation conducive to increased socially-responsive competitiveness of SMEs & stimulate new jobs, especially for companies operating in the social economy. It aims to kickstart a process of policy change at regional level in the involved areas resulting in the integration […]