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Occiglot

Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Occiglot.

Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference

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Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
EU headquarters
Headquarters record
Darmstadt
Legal entity
informal open research collective; no legal entity. Anchored at TU Darmstadt, hessian.AI (Hessian Center for AI) and DFKI (German Research Center for AI)
Ownership
non-profit / academic collective
Founded
2024
Confidence
medium
Last verified
2026-08-22

Links

Official website

Open interactive profile

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

  1. occiglot-7b-eu5 / occiglot-7b-eu5-instructcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    7B (Mistral-7B continued pretraining)
    Context
    8,192 tokens
    Languages
    English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
    Licence
    Apache-2.0
    Release
    2024-03
  2. occiglot-7b-{de,fr,es,it}-en (+ -instruct variants)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    7B each
    Context
    8,192 tokens
    Languages
    per-language bilingual pairs with English
    Licence
    Apache-2.0
    Release
    2024-03

Profile note

The grassroots counterpart to the funded consortia: an open, membership-free European research collective (DFKI, hessian.AI, TU Darmstadt, KU Leuven, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and individual contributors) aiming at coherent language modelling across all 24 official EU languages plus regional languages. Named from 'Occident'. Its 2024 EU5 models were the first credible open multi-EU-language 7B family. Momentum since 2024 has been modest relative to the funded consortia; treat as a community/talent layer rather than a frontier producer. Cross-reference the DACH segment — its institutiona…

Record sources

  1. https://occiglot.eu/
  2. https://huggingface.co/occiglot/occiglot-7b-eu5
  3. https://hessian.ai/occiglot-new-initiative-for-european-language-models-launched/
  4. https://www.dfki.de/en/web/news/occiglot-neue-open-source-sprachmodelle-fuer-europa-veroeffentlicht