OPI AI Lab releases EuroDense multilingual model

The AI Lab at the Information Processing Centre (OPI) has developed and released EuroDense, a multilingual dense retriever model designed for efficient information retrieval. The model supports nine European languages: Polish, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Russian.

Developed as part of the European LLMs4EU project, EuroDense aims to address the anglocentric nature of current AI models. With 435 million parameters and a context window of up to 8192 tokens, it is optimized for use in search engines, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, chatbots, and AI assistants.

According to Dr. Marek Kozłowski, head of the AI Lab at OPI, the model outperformed other multilingual models of comparable size in seven of the nine supported languages. The technology is intended to support the implementation of local AI tools in sectors such as administration, energy, and telecommunications.