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Jul 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Portugal Unveils Amália: Europe’s First Open‑Source Portuguese LLM

Portugal announced Amália, the first European Portuguese open‑source large language model, a 9‑billion‑parameter system trained on roughly 40 trillion Portuguese tokens, funded with €5.5 million, built on EuroLLM‑9B, and slated for multimodal upgrades and government deployments.