Amália, Portugal’s version of ChatGPT, will not be open for everyone to use. It won’t be available online or through an app for regular people to chat with. Instead, it will only be used by government agencies, according to João Magalhães, who leads the project at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
The model, which has 9 billion parameters—much smaller than ChatGPT-4—was trained on more than 100 billion words to work well with Portuguese language, history, culture, and science.
Even though there were earlier talks about making it freely available, the team has now shifted focus to using it only in government settings.
Amália is being funded with €5.5 million from Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The goal is to reduce the country’s reliance on foreign AI systems, protect digital independence, and provide government institutions with tools that are better suited to the nation’s language and culture.
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