Latest / AI.pt / AMALIA, Portugal's open-source language model, is in a development phase running to 2027, and it is not a ChatGPT
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- Maya: Hey everyone! Here's what's on the radar today on AI.pt. AMALIA, Portugal's open-source language model, hits a new phase, Lisbon's Humanos raised money to score AI agent risk, and Lince Capital backed the Erakulis health app. I'm Maya. James: And I'm James. Let's get into it. Maya: So AMALIA is a large language model built from the ground up for European Portuguese, and per OvarNews it entered a new development phase after a multimodal version was shown in July twenty twenty-six, running to twenty twenty-seven. James: Right, Maya, and the key thing builders need to hear is there's no public chatbot. Jornal de Notícias says the Government pitched it as a national ChatGPT, but its functions are not comparable to OpenAI's. Maya: Exactly right, James. It's open source, so you download it and integrate it yourself. The models are on Hugging Face, and access otherwise depends on platforms like GPT@ISCSP, which the ISCSP limits to its academic community. James: And Jornal de Negócios calls it small for the ambitions placed on it. For now it serves specific tasks, with Priberam betting on translation and new voices, while critics point to hallucinations. Maya: Onto Humanos, a Lisbon startup that raised a three point two million dollar seed round, led by Anthemis, per Sifted. It monitors AI agents and gives each one a live risk score from zero to one hundred. James: That's the fascinating part, Maya. The score draws on who controls the agent, its permissions, past behavior, and unusual activity. CEO Pedro Andrade says every time an agent acts, the risk changes because the memory changes. Maya: Yep, and each agent gets a risk passport recording controls and incidents. Humanos wants financial providers to use those to decide when to offer an agent insurance, credit or capital. It says its infrastructure is deployed at more than three hundred fifty organizations. James: And their first customer was a Portuguese insurer. In Portuguese hospitals, agents using Humanos have mainly automated collecting patient consent for treatment. They're targeting one billion dollars in agentic activity over twelve months. Maya: Last one, James. Lince Capital is investing two million euros in Erakulis, the Porto health app Cristiano Ronaldo backs, per tek.sapo.pt. Lince subscribed the entire round alone. James: Nice one, Maya. The app pulls data from Oura rings, Fitbit, Strava and the iPhone Health app, combines it with what users log about meals, and its AI then suggests training plans and eating schedules matched to each goal. Maya: Exactly, and the money goes to its technology, a team of around twenty, and expansion abroad. Partner Tomás Lavin Peixe called digital health one of the segments with the greatest growth potential. CR7 S.A. holds forty-eight percent. Maya: That's your AI.pt daily brief. Check ai.pt for the full stories.