The winners are Tilde (Latvia), an NLP and machine translation, Textgain (Belgium), an AI startup that enables companies and governments to gain valuable insights from unstructured data, Lingua Custodia (France), a Fintech company specialising in AI/natural language processing (NLP) for finance, and Unbabel (Portugal), a language technologies company with headquarters in Lisbon.

The Challenge received 94 proposals.

The winners will share a prize of a total of €1 million and access to two of Europe’s world-leading supercomputers, LUMI or LEONARDO for 8 million hours.
This supercomputer time will be used to develop innovative large-scale AI models in the 12 months following today’s awards. The winners are then expected to release the developed models under an open-source license for non-commercial use, or through publishing their research findings.
The Large AI Grand Challenge was organised by the EU funded project AI-BOOST, and is part of the EU’s commitment to drive excellence in AI.

You will find more information in the EuroHPC press release