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UNBABEL today announces the release of the EuroLLM-9B model – a large language model (LLM) created especially to support all 24 official EU languages.

Thanks to increased funding from the European Union and stepped-up collaboration between the Commission-supported EuroHPC initiative and EU member states Europe has become one of the global leaders in HPC and related AI and quantum computing.

The recent ISC24 conference in Hamburg showcased LUMI and other leadership-class supercomputers co-funded by the EuroHPC JU, including three of the 10 highest-ranking Top500 systems, but some other new JU developments got less attention.

Building on the methods and accomplishments of the Fortissimo project series, FFplus, with a total budget of €30,0 million, will continue to support and empower SMEs and Start-ups towards innovation.

Supercomputers are critical for understanding and responding to complex challenges of today and of the future and transforming them into innovation opportunities and solutions in time.

HPCwire asked Intersect360 Research senior analyst Steve Conway, who closely tracks HPC, AI, and related developments in Europe and attended the event, to interview Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, on the latest activities at the JU (EuroHPC Joint Undertaking).

With an overall funding of €7,6M, the eFlows4HPC project enhanced complex HPC workflows thanks to big data analytics and AI techniques.

When Europe inaugurates its first exascale supercomputer later this year, the event will be a major step towards European sovereignty in computing.

LUMI has been recognized in the 20th Anniversary edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), in Denver, Colorado.