Evidence-backed European AI register
LAION
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for LAION.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- eingetragener Verein (e.V.) — German registered non-profit association
- Ownership
- non-profit
- Founded
- 2021
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
LAION gemeinnütziger e.V. Marlowring 26 22525 Hamburg
Hamburg is explicit on the official imprint, but HQ wording was not present in the fetched text.
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. 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
- text
- Parameters
- 7B / 13B / 70B
- Context
- 8,192 tokens
- Languages
- German + English (bilingual chat variants)
- Licence
- Llama-2 Community Licence (built on Llama-2)
- Release
- 2023-09
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- 150M–2B class
- Context
- 77 tokens
- Languages
- multilingual variants available
- Licence
- MIT (OpenCLIP)
- Release
- 2022–2024
- BUD-E (Buddy for Understanding and Digital Empathy) v1.0
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- multilingual voice assistant framework
- Licence
- open source
- Release
- 2025
- CLAP (audio-text), and the LAION-5B / LAION-400M / LAION-Aesthetics datasets
- Type
- multimodal
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- multilingual
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0 (datasets are link collections, not images)
- Release
- 2021–2024
Profile note
A German non-profit association that had outsized global impact: the LAION-5B image-text dataset underpins Stable Diffusion and much of the open text-to-image ecosystem, and OpenCLIP is the standard open CLIP reimplementation. LeoLM (with hessian.AI) was the first serious German-language open LLM suite. No commercial product, no pricing — its role in the European stack is upstream data and reference weights.