Europe (FR / DE / Spain / Nordic / Italy / Poland / NL / EU-consortium)

AI models, vendors, and hardware buying realities from Europe (FR / DE / Spain / Nordic / Italy / Poland / NL / EU-consortium). Curated by myaihardware.com.

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Why Europe (FR / DE / Spain / Nordic / Italy / Poland / NL / EU-consortium) matters for AI builders

For AI builders in Europe, hardware access is a bottleneck — NVIDIA H100s are scarce and costly, while AMD MI250/MI300X systems are easier to provision through local CSPs. The dominant model families driving inference and fine-tuning here are Mistral, Llama, and the open-weight Qwen variants, not US-centric proprietary labs. Underrated: Europe's strong data-protection laws create a real demand for on-premise inference stacks, making local builders early adopters of hybrid or edge-hardware solutions that the rest of the market will chase later.

Models (32 of 32)

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Mistral 7B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
7B
Context
32,768
Min VRAM
8 GB
GGUF
Yes

Fast inference, strong reasoning, multilingual support, open weights.

Region slug: europe

Mixtral 8x7B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
8x7B
Context
32,768
Min VRAM
24 GB
GGUF
Yes

High performance at fraction of full-parameter cost, excellent multilingual reasoning.

Region slug: europe

Mixtral 8x22B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
8x22B
Context
65,536
Min VRAM
48 GB
GGUF
Yes

Strong reasoning, long context, high throughput.

Region slug: europe

Mistral Large 2

Mistral AI · France

Restricted
Params
123B
Context
128,000
Min VRAM
80 GB
GGUF
Yes

Top-tier reasoning, multilingual performance, long context, instruction following.

Region slug: europe

Mistral Small

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
22B
Context
32,768
Min VRAM
16 GB
GGUF
Yes

Balanced efficiency, strong multilingual chat, affordable inference.

Region slug: europe

Codestral 22B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
22B
Context
32,768
Min VRAM
16 GB
GGUF
Yes

Excellent code generation, fill-in-the-middle, multi-language fluency.

Region slug: europe

Mistral NeMo 12B

Mistral AI / NVIDIA · France

Open
Params
12B
Context
128,000
Min VRAM
12 GB
GGUF
Yes

Long context, strong multilingual, instruction following, compact footprint.

Region slug: europe

Pixtral 12B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
12B
Context
128,000
Min VRAM
16 GB
GGUF
Yes

Multimodal understanding, image captioning, visual QA, strong language backbone.

Region slug: europe

Ministral 3B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
3B
Context
128,000
Min VRAM
4 GB
GGUF
Yes

Extremely lightweight, fast inference, long context, low power.

Region slug: europe

Ministral 8B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
8B
Context
128,000
Min VRAM
8 GB
GGUF
Yes

Good balance of size and capability, long context, resource-efficient.

Region slug: europe

Mathstral 7B

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
7B
Context
32,768
Min VRAM
8 GB
GGUF
Yes

Specialised for mathematics, strong symbolic reasoning, theorem proving.

Region slug: europe

Mistral Embed

Mistral AI · France

Open
Params
7B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
8 GB
GGUF
No

High-quality multilingual text embeddings, retrieval performance.

Region slug: europe

Lucie-7B

LinAGora · France

Open
Params
7B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Strong French fluency, transparent training data, open license, suitable for French public sector and education use cases.

Region slug: europe

CroissantLLM-1.3B

CentraleSupélec · France

Open
Params
1.3B
Context
2,048
Min VRAM
3 GB
GGUF
Yes

Efficient tiny bilingual model, fully open research artifact, transparent training recipe, runs on CPU.

Region slug: europe

EuroLLM-9B

EU-consortium (Unbabel, TU Berlin, UT Austin, etc.) · EU-consortium

Open
Params
9B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
18 GB
GGUF
Yes

Multilingual across all EU languages, open weights, strong translation and cross-lingual transfer.

Region slug: europe

EuroLLM-22B-Preview

EU-consortium (Unbabel, TU Berlin, UT Austin, etc.) · EU-consortium

Open
Params
22B
Context
16,384
Min VRAM
44 GB
GGUF
Yes

Larger multilingual capacity, extended context, improved reasoning across EU languages.

Region slug: europe

Pharia-1-LLM-7B-base

Aleph Alpha · Germany

Restricted
Params
7B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
16 GB
GGUF
No

German-engineered foundation model, strong European language support, compliance-first design.

Region slug: europe

Pharia-1-LLM-7B-instruct

Aleph Alpha · Germany

Restricted
Params
7B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
16 GB
GGUF
No

Instruction-tuned for enterprise tasks, strong German-language performance, compliant deployment.

Region slug: europe

Teuken-7B-instruct

OpenGPT-X / Fraunhofer IAIS · Germany

Open
Params
7B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Fully open European multilingual LLM, transparent training, strong on 20+ EU languages.

Region slug: europe

ALIA-40B

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) · Spain

Open
Params
40B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
80 GB
GGUF
Yes

Largest open Iberian language model, strong on Catalan, Basque, Galician; transparent training.

Region slug: europe

Salamandra-7B

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) · Spain

Open
Params
7B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Compact multilingual model for Romance languages, strong Spanish and Catalan fluency, open weights.

Region slug: europe

Salamandra-40B

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) · Spain

Open
Params
40B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
80 GB
GGUF
Yes

Large-scale Romance language model, deep reasoning, strong across all Iberian languages.

Region slug: europe

Viking-7B

Silo AI (now AMD) · Finland

Open
Params
7B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Strong Nordic language performance, compact size, open weights, runs on consumer hardware.

Region slug: europe

Viking-13B

Silo AI (now AMD) · Finland

Open
Params
13B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
26 GB
GGUF
Yes

Balanced Nordic multilingual model, better reasoning than 7B, still consumer-GPU friendly.

Region slug: europe

Viking-33B

Silo AI (now AMD) · Finland

Open
Params
33B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
66 GB
GGUF
Yes

Most capable Nordic LLM, strong multilingual reasoning, extended context for document tasks.

Region slug: europe

Poro-34B

Silo AI (now AMD) · Finland

Open
Params
34B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
68 GB
GGUF
Yes

Flagship Nordic-Baltic model, strong Finnish fluency, broad language coverage in region.

Region slug: europe

GEITje-7B-ultra

Rijgersberg / Dutch community · Netherlands

Open
Params
7B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Exceptional Dutch fluency, culturally aware, fine-tuned for Dutch tasks, strong instruction following.

Region slug: europe

Minerva-7B-instruct

Sapienza University of Rome · Italy

Open
Params
7B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Leading open Italian LLM, strong academic foundation, transparent and reproducible training.

Region slug: europe

Bielik-7B-Instruct-v0.1

SpeakLeash · Poland

Open
Params
7B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Strong Polish language performance, culturally tuned, good instruction following.

Region slug: europe

Bielik-11B-v2

SpeakLeash · Poland

Open
Params
11B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
22 GB
GGUF
Yes

Improved multilingual coverage, extended context, stronger reasoning than 7B predecessor.

Region slug: europe

PLLuM-12B

PLLuM Consortium (Poznań University of Technology et al.) · Poland

Open
Params
12B
Context
8,192
Min VRAM
24 GB
GGUF
Yes

Fully open Polish LLM with permissive license, strong fluency, government-backed initiative.

Region slug: europe

PULI-GPTrio

Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics / SZTAKI · Hungary

Open
Params
7B
Context
4,096
Min VRAM
14 GB
GGUF
Yes

Dedicated Hungarian LLM, strong on agglutinative morphology, open and permissive license.

Region slug: europe

Notable vendors

Mistral AIAleph AlphaOpenGPT-X / Fraunhofer IAISBarcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)Silo AI (AMD)LinAGoraSpeakLeashSapienza University of RomeEuroLLM consortium

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