ALIA is a pioneering initiative in the European Union that seeks to provide a public infrastructure of AI resources, such as open and transparent language models, to boost the promotion of Spanish and co-official languages - Catalan and Valencian, Basque and Galician - in the development and deployment of AI in the world.
This is the first European public infrastructure, open and multilingual, which, thanks to the unique supercomputing capabilities of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, reinforces the technological sovereignty of Spain and Europe in the development of transparent, responsible AI at the service of people.
This project is coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), with the support and leadership of the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. It is also part of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024 initiated by the Spanish Government
This is an open project that is distinguished by its transparency, in line with the European AI Act and openness to promote innovation and the adoption of technologies, guaranteeing technological reliability and social and economic inclusion.
The ALIA family of models has been verified by the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) and is aligned with the transparency standards established by the European AI Act.
ALIA IS AVIABLE TO EVERYONE AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERYONE.
Will find resources to create applications that reflect the traditions, values, and culture of Spanish and the co-official languages, and that require transparency and trust from the user.
Especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), will be able to develop new applications using these tools and optimize their processes or create new products and services, with the competitive advantage that Spanish and co-official languages provide in international markets.
Will be able to offer better public services and citizen care, optimizing resources, reducing the administrative burden, or improving and personalizing the citizen experience.
Will benefit from these new public administration services, in addition to the possibilities of boosting labor productivity or greater digital accessibility for dependent groups.
And language technologies, especially those in academia and universities, will be able to advance their work, test their hypotheses, and innovate with AI in Spanish and co-official languages, promoting the preservation and valorization of linguistic and cultural heritage.
MareNostrum 5 is the fifth generation of the MareNostrum saga, capable of accelerating science and technology at a speed of 314,000 trillion calculations per second. It is funded by the European Union supercomputing consortium, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Spain - through the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the Generalitat of Catalonia -, Turkey, and Portugal.
THE ALIA PROJECT WAS LAUNCHED WITH THE LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES PLAN IN 2019. PROJECTS SUCH AS AINA, PROMOTED BY THE GENERALITAT OF CATALONIA, AND ILENIA, PROMOTED BY THE STATE SECRETARIAT FOR DIGITALISATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PUBLIC AI INFRASTRUCTURE. IN THE NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY 2024, THE LAUNCH OF THE ALIA PROJECT IS ONE OF THE KEY PILLARS FOR THE CREATION OF THIS PUBLIC AI INFRASTRUCTURE IN SPANISH AND CO-OFFICIAL LANGUAGES. IN ADDITION, ALIA IS ALIGNED WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION'S DIGITAL DECADE PROGRAM, WHICH GUIDES EUROPE'S DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY.
ALIA kit is the space that provides access to all resources in Spanish and co-official languages such as language models, multimodal models (text, voice, and image), methodologies, documentation, and training and evaluation data sets.
