The European Commission has chosen Domyn, a Milan-based AI startup founded by Albanian-Italian entrepreneur Uljan Sharka, to develop Europe’s sovereign open-source AI model through the EUROPA consortium. The ambitious project will surpass 400 billion parameters, support all 24 official EU languages, and operate on EuroHPC supercomputing infrastructure. However, the aggressive one-year delivery timeline has prompted significant concerns among observers about whether the relatively unknown scale-up can realistically execute one of Europe’s most strategically important technological undertakings.
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The European Commission has selected Domyn, a Milan-based AI scale-up led by Albanian-Italian founder Uljan Sharka, to build Europe’s sovereign open-source frontier AI model under the EUROPA consortium. The project will exceed 400 billion parameters, cover all 24 EU languages, and run on EuroHPC supercomputing infrastructure, with a one-year delivery tarreceive that raises serious questions about execution risk.
