Spain is set to develop a foundational AI large language model trained in Spanish and in the country’s co-official languages, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on the eve of the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. The Spanish LLM will be transparent and open source, he said. This move aims to make advanced AI features more widely available in Spanish, which could benefit both Spanish and non-Spanish enterprises in developing new digital services. The government has established a public-private collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Spanish Supercomputing Network, the Spanish Academy of Language (RAE) and the Association of Spanish Language Academies for the development of the Spanish large language model. The administration also plans to extend the initiative to Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. The initiative seeks to provide an open, public, and accessible language infrastructure for companies, so that they can have a large-scale language model that facilitates services that allow them to develop advanced applications for their economic exploitation, such as intelligent assistants, conversational and dialogue systems or content generation models. Sánchez also highlighted the capacity of Barcelona and the surrounding Catalonia region to attract talent, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. “Barcelona and Spain embrace digital transformation as a unique opportunity,” he said.
2024-02-29 01:00:04
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