Speaker
Malte Ostendorff
(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Occiglot)
Description
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as transformative tools, revolutionizing various natural language processing tasks. Despite their remarkable potential, the LLM landscape is predominantly shaped by US tech companies, leaving Europe with limited access and influence. This talk will present Occiglot - an ongoing research collective for open-source language models for and by Europe. More specifically, we will explain why open European LLMs are needed and share insights as well as lessons learned, ranging from data collection and curation, model training and evaluation.
