{"id":12441,"date":"2025-07-24T16:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/?page_id=12441"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:20:54","slug":"democratizing-open-llms-for-global-sovereign-ai-applications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/en\/democratizing-open-llms-for-global-sovereign-ai-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title:&nbsp;<\/strong>Democratizing Open LLMs for Global&nbsp;Sovereign&nbsp;AI Applications&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract:&nbsp;<\/strong>As nations increasingly recognize the strategic importance of artificial intelligence, many efforts have emerged to develop&nbsp;Sovereign&nbsp;AI&nbsp;that is aligned with priorities of different national environments. In this talk, I&#8217;ll describe Switzerland&#8217;s&nbsp;AI&nbsp;Initiative, its goals and organization, and opportunities to work with us to develop&nbsp;open&nbsp;AI&nbsp;models that can serve the rest of the world. Then, I&#8217;ll highlight some recent research projects related to the development of&nbsp;open&nbsp;LLMs&nbsp;for&nbsp;global&nbsp;contexts. First, I&#8217;ll discuss our studies on formalizing the data compliance gap, a measure of the performance cost to complying with data-related regulations that protect the authorship rights of content providers. Then, I&#8217;ll discuss challenges in curating multilingual pretraining corpora to train models that are capable in both high-resource and low-resource languages. Finally, I&#8217;ll discuss how evaluation of multilingual&nbsp;LLMs&nbsp;must move beyond translated benchmarks to truly reflect the cultural specificities of language environments where&nbsp;LLMs&nbsp;would be deployed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:&nbsp;Democratizing Open LLMs for Global&nbsp;Sovereign&nbsp;AI Applications&nbsp; Abstract:&nbsp;As nations increasingly recognize the strategic importance of artificial intelligence, many efforts have emerged to develop&nbsp;Sovereign&nbsp;AI&nbsp;that is aligned with priorities of different national environments. In this talk, I&#8217;ll describe Switzerland&#8217;s&nbsp;AI&nbsp;Initiative, its goals and organization, and opportunities to work with us to develop&nbsp;open&nbsp;AI&nbsp;models that can serve the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11630,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12441","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Antoine Bosselut: Democratizing Open LLMs | IT:U<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Invited talk by Antoine Bosselut (EPFL) on democratizing open LLMs for sovereign AI applications - IT:U Summer School 2025 on NLP.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/it-u.at\/en\/democratizing-open-llms-for-global-sovereign-ai-applications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antoine Bosselut: Democratizing Open LLMs | IT:U\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Invited talk by Antoine Bosselut (EPFL) on democratizing open LLMs for sovereign AI applications - 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