Looks like the typical EU wannabe competition to US Big Tech to me. Like Europe’s Google competitor, Europe’s cloud service, Europe’s operating system and so on.<p>Like these projects, OpenEuroLLM will go nowhere.<p>It is always the same approach that never works: First they assemble the usual mix of organisations from all sorts of countries, making sure all the major EU member nations are represented. Then they give the project some moronic goals (they state “compliance” as the #1 objective - wtf?).<p>The EU commission will pour millions in taxpayer money into this, which is nevertheless not remotely enough to match with the funds raised by US AI companies. And half the money for OpenEuroLLM will be spent on extensive bureaucracy where they have to write lengthy progress reports, pass audits by EU bureaucrats, etc. Not to mention the sizeable travel budget for the people involved. And finally, they may end up with prototypes that (1) nobody asked for and for which there is no market, (2) which do not work well/at all and (3) which are abandoned once the project ends.