Evidence-backed European AI register
NorwAI (NTNU) — NorLLM
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for NorwAI (NTNU) — NorLLM.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI) hosted by NTNU (public university)
- Ownership
- public research with industry partners
- Founded
- 2020
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
Hosted at NTNU in Trondheim, the center coordinates research and innovation activities among three universities, two research institutes and 15 companies.
The wording indicates hosting and location, but not headquarters/head office wording; city cannot be inferred.
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 — continued pretraining of Mistral-7B-v0.1 on 51.15B tokens (30.33B words)
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian, English
- Licence
- custom, gated — access limited to students, companies and organisations from Nordic countries; requires a work or student email. Licence enquiries to Prof. Jon Atle Gulla.
- Release
- 2024-05-15 (national launch)
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- MoE 8x7B (~45B)
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian, English
- Licence
- custom, Nordic-gated
- Release
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 7B
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian, English
- Licence
- custom, Nordic-gated (on top of Llama 2 terms)
- Release
- 2024
- NorLLM ~40B base model
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- ~40B (targeted for end-2024)
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- Norwegian
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
Norway's media-industry-backed model family: eight models released spring 2024 with a national launch on 15 May 2024, trained on 51B tokens including data contributed under agreement by Schibsted, NRK and VG. The distinguishing feature — and the directory-relevant catch — is that access is restricted to Nordic students, companies and organisations, which makes these models unusable to the wider European market, unlike UiO's Apache-2.0 NorMistral. A new roadmap was presented at the NorwAI Innovate conference in 2025; the promised ~40B base model could not be verified as publicly released.