It is worth noting there is _another_, completely unrelated project (also) called *EuroLLM* that is also EU funded which not only shares many of the same goals, but has already fulfilled many of them:

1. large multilingual dataset

2. open science approach

3. competitive performance

Here is the HF blogpost that introduced it in December 2024 (along with various benchmarks): https://huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-team/eurollm-9b

The project's lead has summarized the situation succinctly in their LinkedIn post [0]

  I hope the different communities collaborate openly, share their expertise, and don't decide to reinvent the wheel every time a new project gets funded. Next what? "OpenEuroLLM with real cheese"?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andre-martins-31476745_ai-art...