LLMs ‘for all official EU languages’ on horizon for Finnish startup

A Finnish startup today launched a multilingual AI model that’s a “significant milestone” on the path to LLMs for every EU language, the company says. Helsinki-based Silo AI calls the new large language model Viking 7B. It covers  Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish, as well as English and programming languages. Evaluations indicate best-in-class performance in all the Nordic languages — without compromising the English outputs. Peter Sarlin, Silo AI’s CEO, told TNW that his company is now “on the right track” towards its ultimate goal. “This release marks an important step in our ongoing efforts to develop performant language…

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