LLM-BRIDGE
LLM Booster for Regional Innovation and Digital Growth in Europe
In today’s rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape, foundation models are becoming the cornerstone of many recent Generative AI (GenAI) applications, driving advancements across numerous sectors and industries. To reap the economic potential of productivity growth from GenAI, to foster a more open and competitive market, create better choices for European companies and citizens, reduce the risks of strategic dependency on non-EU actors and to ensure that our European culture, values and languages are embedded in GenAI systems, Europe must build a strong position in GenAI by stimulating the development of foundation models by European entities.
The LLM Booster for Regional Innovation and Digital Growth in Europe (LLM-BRIDGE) project supports startups and scaleups in the fast-growing domain of Large Language Models (LLMs). LLM-BRIDGE aims to strengthen national GenAI ecosystems by equipping startups, scaleups, incubators and investors with the support needed to build and deploy LLM-driven products. The project will help startups and scaleups to integrate LLMs responsibly and at scale. Together, the consortium will deliver three dedicated support programmes focused on LLMs: an entrepreneurial education programme, a venture incubation programme and an acceleration programme.
The project is coordinated by The Alliance for Language Technologies (ALT-EDIC) where the Finnish membership is administrated through the Ministry of Transport and Communication. CSC, as an associated partner, will provide large-scale computing capacity, a rich software environment for training of foundational AI models and connections to Language Data Space. CSC will ensure access to HPC systems and efficient staging of large data volumes, while also supporting optimising and scaling of LLM pipelines as well as solving technical issues related to the computing environment.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
