Building the foundation of Danish AI
Language models have become critical infrastructure — but smaller languages like Danish risk being left behind. Danish Foundation Models is a collaborative effort across Danish universities and research institutions to develop, evaluate, and adapt open language AI that serves Danish society.
20+industry use cases
100%open models and data
What we do¶
National initiative, international reach
Danish in focus — but our models, benchmarks and tools contribute to the broader European and global open-source AI community, well beyond the Danish language.
The full AI stack
From training data and model development to evaluation and real-world adaptation. Through EuroEval and MTEB, Danish is represented in the most widely used benchmarks.
EuroEval →
Built with industry
Developed in close partnership with Danish companies and public institutions, so the infrastructure is relevant where it matters.
Open by design
All models, datasets and research are freely available. Dynaword lets municipalities, industry and research contribute to shared, openly licensed data.
Dynaword →
Our Network¶
DFM is a consortium of four Danish institutions working with partners across Denmark, the Nordics and Europe — from public institutions and industry to research projects building open language models for their own languages. Their involvement shapes what we build and ensures it is relevant where it counts.