Overview
- Domyn's CEO Uljan Sharka announced on Thursday that the Milan startup will release a fully open-source, reproducible frontier model with more than 400 billion parameters within a year.
- The model is planned to be trained from scratch and designed so governments and companies can run it on their own servers at no licensing cost.
- Domyn leads the EUROPA consortium with Germany’s Fraunhofer and was chosen under the European Commission’s Frontier AI Grand Challenge, and the company says it is backed by Abu Dhabi’s G42 and investors including Eurizon Capital, Rabobank and BNY.
- The project intends to use Europe’s public supercomputing network EuroHPC and partnerships with firms such as NVIDIA, and Domyn says it expects initial government data agreements within weeks but has not disclosed full funding details.
- Delivering a true frontier system will depend on securing large capital, sustained access to high-quality training data and the required compute resources, so experts say parameter count alone will not guarantee competitive capability.