Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese
THE SO WHAT
A 10M-person country funding and open-sourcing its own LLM for European Portuguese shows how cheap it’s getting to localize core models. If you operate in a non-English market, assume your regulators or incumbents will back a “national stack”—plan for coexistence and integration, not a single global vendor.
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