Comment by KronisLV
5 days ago
I also quite liked the EuroLLM project: https://huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-team/eurollm-9b
Was pretty good with Latvian (better than other models this size as well as variants of Llama or Qwen that I could run) and I assume probably with other EU languages as well.
I've just tried it in one of the supported languages, and it seems to respond far better than any model under 24B that I've tried before. With its licensing, it sounds much more exciting to me than the OP.