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Norway's National Library is developing a sovereign large language model for the Norwegian language, using 2 petabytes of Huawei OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage in its AI training pipeline. The project addresses the lack of commercial Norwegian LLMs and highlights challenges in moving data from archival storage to high-performance AI systems.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek launched a preview of its V4 model, featuring longer prompt handling and open-source access. The model offers strong performance at low costs, a 1 million token context window, and optimization for Chinese chips like Huawei's Ascend. It builds on R1's success while addressing efficiency and hardware independence.