IBM, Government Of Spain Tie-up To Develop AI Models For Spanish Language

(RTTNews) - IBM Corp. (IBM) announced on Friday that it has signed a deal with the Spanish Government to develop foundational models of artificial intelligence or AI for Spanish and co-official languages, including Catalan, Basque, Galician, and Valencian.

In addition, the two parties inked a Memorandum of Understanding or MoU to promote their collaboration in AI and AI supercomputing, advance the development and practical deployment of open, ethical and responsible generative AI in Spain.

The MoU also aims to share the vision to create a suite of foundation models including both large language models or LLMs and small language models, proficient in the Spanish language and co-official languages.

"One of the priority areas under this MoU is to collaborate in a leading suite of foundation models, including both large language models or LLMs and small language models or SLMs, proficient in the Spanish language and co-official languages," the company said.

The collaboration also reflects the intention to develop AI to support the discovery, development, and validation of new materials to increase the sustainability of the semiconductors value chain.