--- title: "AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs" url: https://daily.dev/posts/am-lia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms-0hetnoi7q source_url: https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2026-05-11T19:21:39.929Z updated: 2026-05-11T19:22:00.875Z tags: ["machine-learning", "open-source", "llm", "nlp"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AMÁLIA is a €5.5M Portuguese government-funded open source LLM for European Portuguese, built as a continuation of EuroLLM's pre-training rather than trained from scratch. The author analyzes the technical report and raises concerns: the model weights, data, and benchmarks are not yet publicly available despite open source claims; only ~5.5% of pre-training tokens are clearly European Portuguese; and the new benchmarks don't measure intrinsic knowledge about Portugal. Despite beating models like Qwen 3-8B on most Portuguese benchmarks, the author questions whether the approach is fully optimized and calls for more Portuguese data, genuine openness of weights and datasets, and better evaluation dimensions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese](https://daily.dev/posts/portugal-open-sources-am-lia-its-first-national-ai-model-in-a-bet-on-european-portuguese-r9is2sjhj) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [eurollm.io](https://daily.dev/posts/eurollm-io-zmzwgzjmu) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#nlp](https://daily.dev/tags/nlp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/am-lia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms-0hetnoi7q)