Room 8, from language technology to national infrastructure
Modern Greek AI did not begin with a chatbot. Its story runs through language technology and research, open Greek language models, public-sector applications and national computing infrastructure.
Open the interactive room →A small Greek team of linguists and computer scientists joins the European EUROTRA project to build machine translation between Community languages. This work becomes a starting point for organised Greek language technology.
SKEL is founded at NCSR Demokritos and grows into one of Greece’s largest AI research labs, working on intelligent information systems, data analysis and human-computer interaction.
The EUROTRA team gains a permanent institutional home with the creation of ILSP. Its work expands from translation to speech, language resources, culture and human-machine interaction.
Researchers release a BERT model trained specifically on Greek text, showing why a language with far fewer digital resources than English benefits from dedicated models and evaluation.
Athena Research Center establishes a unit for basic and applied research in AI, data science and algorithms, linking researchers in Greece and abroad.
The gov.gr digital assistant brings generative AI into a public service used by citizens at national scale.
ILSP introduces Meltemi, an open large language model designed for Greek, highlighting the challenge of languages with fewer digital resources.
Llama-Krikri extends the effort with more Greek training data, a larger context window and broader capabilities, while remaining openly available.
Greece joins the European AI Factories network with PHAROS, focusing among other areas on Greek language and culture, health and sustainability.
The DAEDALUS supercomputer brings new national computing capacity for science and AI. In the June 2026 TOP500 it ranks 31st with measured performance of 85.69 petaflops.