{"slug": "portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-model", "title": "Portugal Launches Amalia Open Source Portuguese Language Model", "summary": "Portugal released Amalia, the first open large language model for European Portuguese, on July 1. Developed by a consortium led by NOVA University Lisbon with over 60 researchers and funded by the country's Recovery and Resilience Plan at a cost of up to 7 million euros by 2027, the model adapts EuroLLM-9B and GlorIA, extending context to 32,000 tokens, and is released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. The approach mirrors national efforts like Spain's ALIA and Germany's Teuken-7B.", "body_md": "Portugal's release of Amalia is a working template for how a smaller country can ship a sovereign, open language model on a research-project budget rather than a hyperscaler one, a pattern worth noting for teams evaluating national or regional AI deployments. The Portuguese government unveiled Amalia on July 1 as the first open large language model built for European Portuguese, developed by a consortium of universities led by NOVA University Lisbon with more than sixty researchers, and funded through the country's Recovery and Resilience Plan at a cost rising to 7 million euros by 2027. Rather than training from scratch, the team adapted EuroLLM-9B and the earlier GlorIA model, extending pretraining and expanding context to 32,000 tokens, then released the roughly 9-billion-parameter text model, a vision model, and a speech-recognition component under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. The approach mirrors earlier national efforts including Spain's ALIA and Germany's Teuken-7B.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-model", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-mod-d12ab37e", "published_at": "2026-07-04 04:17:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-04 04:53:05.647891+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Portugal", "Amalia", "NOVA University Lisbon", "EuroLLM-9B", "GlorIA", "Hugging Face", "ALIA", "Teuken-7B"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-model", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-model.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-model.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/portugal-launches-amalia-open-source-portuguese-language-model.jsonld"}}