Evidence-backed European AI register
National Library of Norway AI Lab
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for National Library of Norway AI Lab.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- AI Lab within Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), a Norwegian state body
- Ownership
- state-owned / public research
- Founded
- 2019
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
The AI-lab at the National Library of Norway is an instrument to explore the potential use of AI in Libraries(, Archives and Museums).
The page describes the lab but does not state headquarters/head office/principal place of business.
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
- asr
- Parameters
- matching OpenAI Whisper sizes
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk (+ speech translation)
- Licence
- Apache-2.0 (note: for downloads made in Norway, attribution requirements of the Norwegian copyright act still apply)
- Release
- 2023–2024
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- ~110M / ~340M
- Context
- 512 tokens
- Languages
- Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- 2021
- NB-GPT-J-6B
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 6B
- Context
- 2,048 tokens
- Languages
- Norwegian
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
- NB-Wav2Vec 2.0
- Type
- asr
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
- Front page detector (ViT)
- Type
- image
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- n/a
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
- NB-T5
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
The Norwegian counterpart to Sweden's KBLab, and equally a case for national libraries as model producers: NB-Whisper is Apache-2.0 with training code also open, and NB-BERT was trained on two centuries of legal-deposit text. Also a co-partner on both the UiO NORA.LLM models and NTNU's NorwAI models — the library is the data spine of Norwegian LLM work. No API, no pricing.