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Italy's Domyn to launch open source frontier AI model within a year …
Italy's Domyn will release a fully open-source AI model within a year, aiming to build one of the most advanced so-called "frontier" systems available, CEO Uljan Sharka said on Thursday. The move…
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Italy's Domyn to launch open source frontier AI model within a year …
By Leo Marchandon June 25 (Reuters) – Italy's Domyn will release a fully open-source AI model within a year, aiming to build one of the most advanced so-called "frontier" systems available, CEO Uljan Sharka said on Thursday. The move comes as Europe s…
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Domyn-Led EUROPA Consortium Wins EU Frontier AI Grand …
Domyn leads the EUROPA consortium with a 6,000-chip Nvidia Blackwell cluster already in development, giving the project committed compute before training begins. The Frontier AI Grande Challenge ran from launch to winner selection in under five months, an unusually compressed timeline by EU procurement standards. EUROPA's compute backstop covers up to 2.5% of total EuroHPC capacity for one year, making this publicly backed training infrastructure with real delivery risk. … The Commission's…
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This is great news for Europe and for the amazing team at Domyn! Congratulations Uljan Sharka!
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Commission selects EUROPA consortium as the winner of the …
The European Commission has selected EUROPA, a European consortium led by the Italian company Domyn, as the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge.
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New EU model (Domyn) will be 400b. : r/LocalLLaMA – Reddit
New EU model (Domyn) will be 400b.
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Europe bets its AI sovereignty on a Milan startup most people have never heard of
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EU Chooses Italian Domyn for Open-Source AI Model – LinkedIn
JUST IN: Italian Domyn has been chosen by the EU to develop an open-source AI model covering all 24 official EU languages! 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 Domyn is a Milan-based LLM and AI gigafactory company that is leading a European consortium called Europa. Last week it was selected by the European Commission as the winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. As a result it will develop an open-source model covering all 24 official EU languages. EUROPA's model will be openly available and "designed to perform at the…
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AI Factories – EuroHPC JU – European Union
AI factories are hubs that use the supercomputing capacity of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to develop trustworthy cutting-edge generative AI models, helping improve areas like health, manufacturing, climate, finance, and more.
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Rabo Investments' Post – LinkedIn
The European Commission just picked Domyn to lead Europe's own frontier AI model. Domyn heads the EUROPA consortium. It won the EU's Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The prize is a European open-source AI model. One that works in all 24 official EU languages. The Commission asked for more than 400 billion parameters. That scale sits among the most advanced systems in the world. Europe wants to build this on its own infrastructure. Open, and rooted in European values. Businesses, researchers and…
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Meet our leadership team. The people bringing Domyn’s vision to life.
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400 Billion Parameter Model: Consortium "Europa" Wins AI … – Heise
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"On June 19, the European Commission announced the winner of …
Led by Italian AI company Domyn, EUROPA won the EU's Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The project will create a 400B+ parameter AI model designed …
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Domyn CEO Uljan Sharka at Semafor World Economy – YouTube
Italian AI company Domyn will release a fully open-source frontier AI model within a year, CEO Uljan Sharka announced on Thursday, in a bid to reduce Europe’s dependence on American and Chinese artificial intelligence technology. tech.yahoo.com wtvbam.com
European Commission Backing
The Milan-based company leads the EUROPA consortium, which the European Commission selected on June 18 as the sole winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The challenge, launched in February 2026, called on European AI developers to meet advanced capability thresholds. The consortium, which also includes Germany’s Fraunhofer institute, will receive access to up to 2.5 percent of total EuroHPC supercomputing capacity for one year to train the model. aiweekly.co linkedin.com digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Domyn’s forthcoming model will feature more than 400 billion parameters and be trained from scratch, covering all 24 official EU languages. A system of that size would rank among the largest open-source AI models built to date, though parameter count alone does not determine how a model performs against leading frontier systems. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu wtvbam.com tech.yahoo.com
Open-Source and Reproducible
Sharka emphasized that the model will be entirely open-source and reproducible, allowing businesses and governments to operate it on their own infrastructure at no cost. The EUROPA consortium will rely on a 6,000-chip Nvidia Blackwell cluster already in development, giving the project dedicated compute resources before training begins. tech.yahoo.com aiweekly.co wtvbam.com
While Domyn did not disclose specific funding figures, it confirmed backing from Abu Dhabi’s G42, along with investments from Eurizon Capital, Rabobank, and BNY. tech.yahoo.com
A Test of European AI Ambitions
The project represents one of the European Union’s most concrete efforts to develop homegrown AI capabilities. Domyn has already built a closed 260-billion-parameter model for enterprise clients and released a smaller 10-billion-parameter open model. Whether the company can deliver a competitive frontier system within its timeline remains an open question — but with public supercomputing infrastructure and institutional capital behind it, the EUROPA project marks a departure from Europe’s historically cautious posture on large-scale AI development. reddit.com