Evidence-backed European AI register
Textgain
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Textgain.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- headquarters unknown
- Headquarters country
- unknown
- Headquarters city
- unknown
- Legal entity
- Belgian company; spin-off of the University of Antwerp
- Ownership
- private (university spin-off)
- Founded
- 2015
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Headquarters evidence
Textgain’s headquarters is in Antwerp (Borgerhout), Belgium:
The research candidate suggested 'EU headquarters', but its exact quote could not be reproduced from the cited current source; the claim remains unpromoted.
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
- CaLICO
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- unknown
- Context
- unknown
- Languages
- all official EU languages
- Licence
- unknown
- Release
- unknown
Profile note
One of only two winners of the European Commission's Large AI Grand Challenge (June 2024), which awards EuroHPC compute to train a foundation model. Building CaLICO, an LLM to detect and process hate speech across every official EU language — a genuinely EU-specific model target that no US lab is optimising for. A University of Antwerp spin-off. Model size, release date, licence and whether CaLICO shipped are all unverified — recorded as null.
Record sources
- https://textgain.com/
- https://www.brusselstimes.com/1140252/the-belgian-company-building-the-worlds-first-ai-model-to-track-hate-sp…
- https://www.techzine.eu/news/privacy-compliance/122014/belgian-textgain-develops-llm-to-detect-hate-speech/
- https://www.research-live.com/article/news/textgain-to-build-hate-speech-detection-llm/id/5128053