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.

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    11 hours ago

    Well, investing a mere €20 millions won’t achieve much. On the other hand I’m glad they aren’t wasting more money on it.

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      9 hours ago

      Wasn’t DeepSeek v3 trained with single-digit million dollars budget?

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        9 hours ago

        Iirc leaked numbers says something closer to 1 billion USD

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        9 hours ago

        Probably not. There’s a lot of reasons to be skeptical of those claimed numbers.