Cloudflare Launches Two European Open AI Models on Workers AI

Cloudflare has announced the launch of two European open AI models, EuroLLM and Apertus, on its Workers AI platform. EuroLLM supports 35 languages, including all 24 official EU languages, and was developed with support from Horizon Europe and the European Research Council. Apertus is Switzerland's first large-scale, fully open, multilingual language model, trained on over 15 trillion tokens across 1,500 languages. Both models are designed to provide decentralized and affordable access to AI, promoting national resilience and sovereignty. Cloudflare's security team has also built AI defenses that work with any model, preventing vendor lock-in and ensuring that losing access to one model doesn't compromise defenses. The launch of these models follows Cloudflare's argument for choice and freedom in AI access, which has been hardened by the use of frontier models in cyber attacks and the restriction of access to some models.