The European Commission announced that EUROPA, the consortium led by Italian start-up Domyn—in collaboration with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the leading European organisation in applied research—has been selected to develop Europe’s cutting-edge open-source artificial intelligence model as part of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge initiative.
The model developed by EUROPA will be made available as open source in order to make advanced AI technologies more accessible to businesses, researchers, and public institutions while taking Europe’s linguistic diversity into account. It will be trained in all of the European Union’s official languages. According to the European Commission, its design will enable it to reach “the forefront of global AI capabilities”.
Launched in February 2026, the Frontier AI Grand Challenge invited the leading European players in artificial intelligence to propose a model with more than 400 billion parameters, a scale comparable to that of the world’s most advanced AI systems.
The project will, for one year, be given access to up to 2.5% of EuroHPC’s total computing capacity on one or more EuroHPC supercomputers optimised for artificial intelligence.
“Europe can lead in advanced AI on its own terms. EUROPA will build a frontier European AI model in all 24 EU languages, showing that we can match the best while staying true to our values”, declared European Commission Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen. (Original version in French by Ana Pisonero Hernández)