The European Comission has granted €20 million to STEP, the European consortium that will create the AI model. It will be open source, European regulations-compliant and unlike Deepseek, its dataset will also be open source and will be trained in 35 languages.
Hey! Look at me! I also want to be a dumpster fire.
At the very least the name is much more technically accurate by putting LLM instead of AI in there.