Evidence-backed European AI register
INSAIT — Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for INSAIT — Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- EU headquarters
- Headquarters record
- Sofia
- Legal entity
- Research institute within Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, established in partnership with ETH Zurich and EPFL
- Ownership
- public research (Bulgarian government + Sofia University), founded by Prof. Martin Vechev
- Founded
- 2022
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Model listings
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- 27B
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Languages
- Bulgarian, English
- Licence
- Gemma Terms of Use (Google) — not OSI-open
- Release
- 2025-03 (knowledge cutoff May 2025 pretrain / Oct 2025 instruction tuning per model card)
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- 12B / 4B
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Languages
- Bulgarian, English
- Licence
- Gemma Terms of Use
- Release
- 2025
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 27B / 9B / 2.6B
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Bulgarian, English
- Licence
- Gemma Terms of Use
- Release
- 2024
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- 12B / 4B
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Ukrainian, English
- Licence
- Gemma Terms of Use
- Release
- 2025
- SPEAR (robotic VLA)
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- unknown
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
The strongest model lab in the segment and arguably the most consequential in the Balkans: it produces the national Bulgarian LLM (BgGPT) AND the leading Ukrainian one (MamayLM), plus robotics VLAs — and co-leads the EUR 90M BRAIN++ AI Factory. Founded by Prof. Martin Vechev with ETH Zurich/EPFL partnership. Crucial licence caveat: everything is Gemma-derived, so weights are 'open' but carry Google's Gemma Terms of Use, not Apache/MIT. There is NO commercial API and no price list — access is free weights plus a free hosted chat.
Record sources
- https://insait.ai/
- https://huggingface.co/INSAIT-Institute/BgGPT-Gemma-3-27B-IT
- https://huggingface.co/INSAIT-Institute/MamayLM-Gemma-3-12B-IT-v1.0
- https://insait.ai/insait-releases-the-first-open-and-efficient-multimodal-ukrainian-llm/
- https://insait.ai/bulgaria-will-have-its-own-ai-factory-a-project-for-90m-eur/
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.10893