Austrian Academy trains an AI on 600 million words of Ancient Greek

The Austrian Academy of Sciences has initiated the development of Apollo, a large language model specifically designed for Ancient Greek. The project is being conducted in collaboration with the French artificial intelligence company Mistral and the services firm Reply. The model is currently being trained on a dataset comprising 600 million words of historical texts.

According to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Apollo represents the first large language model of its kind developed for the Ancient Greek language. The effort aims to leverage modern machine learning techniques to process and analyze this extensive corpus of historical literature.