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.

National Initiative, International Reach Danish in focus — but our models, benchmarks, and tools contribute to the broader European and global open-source AI community.

The Full AI Stack From training data and model development to evaluation benchmarks and real-world adaptation — we cover the entire pipeline.

20+ Industry Use Cases Built in close partnership with Danish industry and public institutions to ensure the infrastructure is relevant where it matters.

Open by Design All models, datasets, and research are freely available — enabling transparency, reproducibility, and broad access.

Our Work

Dynaword A framework for developing open Danish datasets, enabling contributions from municipalities, industry, and research into shared linguistic infrastructure. Evaluation for European AI Through EuroEval and MTEB we ensure Danish is represented in the most widely used benchmarks — both across Europe and internationally — for generative and search models alike. Open Source Contributions From multilingual to multimodal evaluation — DFM contributes tools and datasets used well beyond the Danish language community. See all news → Model releases, papers, and updates from the project.

Explore Our Resources

Models Browse and download all of our models on Hugging Face Datasets Explore the datasets we use to train and evaluate our models

Adoption and Collaboration

Real-world use is what makes AI infrastructure matter. The organisations below represent both active collaborators and adopters of DFM's work — spanning industry, public institutions, and cultural heritage. Their involvement shapes what we build and ensures it is relevant where it counts.