WASP research ecosystem to benefit from NAISS–Nvidia–KBLab partnership

Sweden is taking a major step toward sovereign AI with a new partnership between NAISS, Nvidia, and KBLab—boosting the development of Swedish language models and strengthening the WASP research ecosystem.

In a landmark initiative for Swedish AI research, NAISS (National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden) and Linköping University have announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia and a national research infrastructure under the National Library of Sweden, KBLab. The collaboration will accelerate the development of large language models tailored for the Swedish language and provide cutting-edge computational resources and expertise to train next-generation models on culturally and linguistically relevant data.

The enhanced infrastructure and access to Nvidia’s advanced AI technologies will empower WASP-affiliated projects to push the boundaries of language models fine-tuned for Swedish. For the WASP Research Arena WARA Media and Language (WARA M&L), the partnership will have a significant impact:

“The collaboration between NAISS and Nvidia opens valuable opportunities for the WARA M&L community, accelerating technical development and competence building within an already vibrant network,” says Johanna Björklund, Project Manager for WARA M&L. “We believe that compact, yet highly specialized models represent the future—models that require a robust computational platform for effective distillation and fine-tuning.”

“This is a great example of the advances made possible by critical investments in the Berzelius supercomputer funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and Love Börjeson’s outstanding AI research environment at the National Library of Sweden,” says Erik Lindahl, Professor at Linköping University and NAISS director.

“My hope is that the broader collaboration with WASP and Nvidia will produce continuously updated state-of-the-art language models fine-tuned for Swedish and support important research on trust and reasoning for LLMs,” he continues.

The initiative will foster deeper collaboration between academia, industry, and public institutions, aligning closely with WASP’s mission to advance research for the benefit of Swedish industry and society.