The European Commission has just laid an important stone in the global battle over artificial intelligence.
On 19 June 2026, it selected the EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge. This consortium is led by the Italian company Domyn, with the participation of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a major European applied research organisation.
Its mission is ambitious: to develop a cutting-edge European artificial intelligence model, open source, trained to cover the 24 official languages of the European Union.
This model will have to exceed 400 billion parameters. For one year, it will benefit from access to up to 2.5% of EuroHPC’s total computing capacity, on one or more European supercomputers adapted to artificial intelligence.
This is not a laboratory project.
It is a sovereignty test.
Europe wants to demonstrate that it knows how to build advanced artificial intelligence on its own infrastructures, with its own talent, according to its own rules and for its own needs.
The bet is clear: not to let foundation models, European languages, public data, companies and administrations depend entirely on the United States or China.
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