Domyn to Launch Open-Source Frontier AI Model in a Year

Italy's Domyn will release a fully open-source AI model within a year. The company aims to build one of the most advanced "frontier" AI systems. This move comes as Europe seeks to reduce its reliance on foreign-hosted AI systems. Domyn's EUROPA consortium, with Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, was chosen for this task by the European Commission. The project positions Domyn alongside other European AI players like France's Mistral. Domyn, formerly iGenius, was founded in Milan in 2016. It has already released specialized AI models for regulated sectors. The new model will have over 400 billion parameters and be trained from scratch. This would make it one of the largest open-source AI models. Domyn's CEO states the model will be reproducible, allowing companies and governments to run it on their own infrastructure at no cost. The European Commission's support grants access to Europe's public supercomputing infrastructure, EuroHPC. Domyn plans to gather data from institutional partners and expects data agreements with governments soon. This development could offer a significant alternative in the global AI landscape, promoting local control and innovation.