Türkiye will soon open national BİLGE model to developers

Türkiye’s Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır said the first version of the Turkish-language large language model BİLGE will soon be available to developers, while at least $10 billion is planned to be attracted to data centers by 2030.

The first version of BİLGE, a large language model created in Türkiye for the Turkish language, will soon be opened to developers. Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır announced this at the 10th TRT World Forum in Istanbul.

Kacır said BİLGE would strengthen the country’s technological independence and enable startups, researchers and companies to create products and services based on their own Turkish artificial intelligence technologies.

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Kacır listed the objectives of the national artificial intelligence action plan through 2030: to provide 5 million citizens with basic AI training, prepare 10,000 highly skilled specialists and 100,000 professionals, make at least 2,000 government datasets available to researchers, increase data center capacity to 1 gigawatt, and attract at least $10 billion in private investment to data centers, cloud technologies and AI infrastructure.

The minister also said that Türkiye was preparing risk-based AI regulation and that an AI ethics council would be established to protect privacy, combat discrimination and ensure children’s safety. “We can delegate authority to artificial intelligence, but we cannot delegate responsibility to it,” Kacır stressed.