en.Wedoany.com Reported - Uljan Sharka, CEO of Italy's Domyn, announced that the company will release a fully open-source artificial intelligence model within a year, aiming to build one of the most advanced so-called "frontier" systems.
This move comes amid Europe's search for alternatives to reduce reliance on externally hosted AI systems. Italy and the Czech Republic have imposed restrictions on remote use of DeepSeek models while allowing locally hosted deployments. Concerns are growing over U.S. export controls on Anthropic models.
The EUROPA consortium, jointly formed by Domyn and Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft research laboratories, has been selected by the European Commission for the "Frontier AI Grand Challenge." This project positions Domyn alongside France's Mistral and newcomer OVHcloud in Europe's AI landscape.
Domyn, formerly known as iGenius and founded in Milan in 2016, has released a series of specialized AI models for regulated sectors such as finance, government, and heavy industry. This open-source initiative comes as Chinese companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen dominate the open-source field, while most leading U.S. models remain proprietary and require remote access.
Domyn's model will have over 400 billion parameters and be trained from scratch. A 400-billion-parameter system would rank among the largest open-source AI models to date, though scale alone does not determine whether it can match the capabilities of leading frontier systems. Sharka stated that the model will be fully open-source and reproducible, allowing businesses and governments to run it for free on their own infrastructure.
Octave Klaba, CEO of OVHcloud, told Reuters at VivaTech last week that declining costs and technical barriers are ushering in a "second wave" of AI model builders. Sharka fully agreed, adding that European Commission support enables access to the European public supercomputing infrastructure EuroHPC, which he described as an undervalued strategic asset. Sharka noted that while U.S. companies invest heavily in AI infrastructure, Europe already has the necessary resources through the EuroHPC network, emphasizing that the computing power required to train a frontier model is far less than that needed to support hundreds of millions of chatbot users for remote services.
Domyn plans to collect data from institutional partners. Sharka said he has arranged meetings with European heads of state and expects to sign initial data agreements with governments within weeks. Domyn declined to disclose funding details but stated it is backed by Abu Dhabi's G42 and investors including Eurizon Capital, Rabobank, and BNY.
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