Blits.ai joins the EU-funded LLMs4EU project

Large Language Models are reshaping how organizations interact with information, customers, and services. At the same time, an increasingly relevant question is emerging in Europe: who builds these models, on what data, and under which values and regulations?

That question is central to LLMs4EU. Blits.ai participates in this European Union–funded initiative focused on strengthening Europe’s position in large-scale language technology.

Building European foundations for Large Language Models

LLMs4EU (Large Language Models for the European Union) is a multi-year project funded under the EU’s Digital Europe Programme. Its objective is clear: to develop a shared European ecosystem for training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying large language models that reflect Europe’s linguistic diversity, legal frameworks, and societal context.

A core focus of the project is addressing the structural underrepresentation of many European languages in existing foundation models. LLMs4EU aims to make high-quality language models available across a wide range of EU languages, including those with limited commercial incentives in today’s global AI landscape.

The project emphasizes open access to models, datasets, and tooling, enabling European organizations to innovate without structural dependence on non-European AI providers. Compliance with GDPR and alignment with the EU AI Act are built into the project’s foundations rather than treated as afterthoughts.

Why LLMs4EU matters

Europe has strong research institutions, advanced enterprises, and a highly capable SME ecosystem. What has been missing is a coordinated approach to foundational AI models that are both technically competitive and structurally aligned with European regulation and values.

LLMs4EU addresses this gap by:

• Enabling European companies and public institutions to access advanced language models
• Supporting multilingual and domain-specific AI applications across sectors such as public services, telecom, energy, tourism, and research
• Promoting open, reusable AI components instead of closed, opaque systems
• Strengthening Europe’s technological autonomy in a rapidly consolidating global AI market

For enterprises operating in regulated environments, this is not theoretical. It directly affects how safely, transparently, and sustainably AI can be deployed in production.

A strong European consortium

LLMs4EU brings together a large and diverse consortium of more than sixty partners from across Europe, combining academic research, applied innovation, and industrial deployment expertise.

Notable participants include organizations such as TNO, KPN, leading European research institutes, universities, telecom providers, and technology companies. This breadth ensures that the project is grounded not only in research excellence, but also in real-world applicability and scalability.

The consortium structure reflects a deliberate choice: building European language models is not just a technical challenge, but an ecosystem challenge that requires collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

Blits.ai’s role in the project

Blits.ai participates in LLMs4EU as a European SME with a strong focus on applied, enterprise-grade generative AI. Our work centers on deploying LLM-based solutions in complex, regulated environments where multilingual support, reliability, explainability, and compliance are essential.

That applied perspective is critical within a project like LLMs4EU. Training models is only one part of the equation; making them usable, governable, and deployable at scale is where lasting impact is created.

Through our participation, we contribute practical experience from real-world deployments while staying closely connected to the evolving European AI research and infrastructure landscape.

Alignment with Blits.ai’s mission

At Blits.ai, we design and deploy generative AI solutions that are built for production use, multilingual by default, and suitable for organizations operating under strict regulatory constraints.

Participation in LLMs4EU aligns directly with that mission. It reinforces our focus on:

• language models that work across European cultures and languages,
• transparent and auditable AI systems,
• and architectures that respect European regulation while remaining globally competitive.

Being part of LLMs4EU strengthens our ability to deliver these principles in practice—both for our clients and within the broader European AI ecosystem.

Looking ahead

LLMs4EU represents a long-term investment in Europe’s AI capabilities. Over the coming years, it will influence how language models are developed, shared, and adopted across industries and public institutions.

Blits.ai will continue to contribute from an applied, enterprise perspective, ensuring that the outcomes of this initiative translate into deployable, real-world AI systems that serve European organizations effectively and responsibly.