Announcing Occiglot: Polyglot Language Models for the Occident
Mission Statement Recent advancements in transformer-based language models have demonstrated the potentially disruptive impact of this technology. Unfortunately, the high cost and required skill sets associated with training Large Language Models (LLM) leave the field dominated by a handful of big tech companies and deep tech startups, making core European values such as linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and cultural richness an afterthought of economically driven decisions. Occiglot strongly believes that dedicated language modeling solutions are key to maintaining Europe’s academic and economic competitiveness and AI sovereignty....