ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".

I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr

Is there a reason why the European public sector shouldn’t use @Codeberg instead of GitHub?

Are there technical or legal/compliance reasons not to do so?

I would love to see the public sector contribute to the maintenance of @forgejo and to the health @Codeberg

#sovereignty #foss#publicSector

If the @EUCommission is unable to cut ties with #Israel and stop considering it like if it were a European State, which obviously it is not, what does it say about Europe complicity in a #genocide and what does it say about our #sovereignty?

Denounce EU-Israel Association Agreement and step away from these criminals! You should have done it long ago. History will be judge.

Are Foreign Ministers blind? Sanction first, then we can see how "things improve on the ground". Are we Israel's slaves?

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💡 Özgür addressed how Europeans can maintain #financial #autonomy in an increasingly #digital economy, examining a critical aspect of digital #sovereignty that often gets overlooked:

👀 our payment infrastructure.

@oec @EC_NGI @Taler

🇪🇺 EU OS for the public sector
Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a common free Operating System for the EU public sector

｢ So far, EU OS is a Proof-of-Concept for the deployment of a Fedora-based Linux operating system with a KDE Plasma desktop environment and bootable container technology in a typical public sector organisation ｣

https://eu-os.eu/

#eu #opensource #sovereignty #endof10

LOL

｢ In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections."｣

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws_european_sovereign_cloud/

#aws #bigtech #sovereignty #eu