Domyn plans open-source frontier model in Europe

Italy’s Domyn plans to release a fully open-source AI model within a year, aiming to build one of the most advanced frontier systems available. CEO Uljan Sharka said the model will be reproducible and available for companies and governments to run on their own infrastructure at no cost.

The effort comes as Europe looks for alternatives to foreign-hosted AI systems. Italy and Czechia have restricted remote use of DeepSeek’s models while allowing local deployments, and concerns have grown around U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s models.

Domyn’s EUROPA consortium, created with Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft research lab, was selected under the European Commission’s Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The company, formerly iGenius, was founded in Milan in 2016 and has developed specialised models for regulated sectors including finance, government and heavy industry.

The model will have over 400 billion parameters and be trained from scratch, placing it among the largest open-source systems to date. Sharka said Commission support provides access to EuroHPC, Europe’s public supercomputing infrastructure, and Domyn expects its first government data agreements within weeks.