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 EuroLLM is a fully open-sourced large language model made in Europe and built to support all twenty-four official EU languages.

While several European states have separately produced their own LLMs, such as Greece's "Meltemi" or the recent offering from Switzerland "Apertus", there was no solution that catered for the languages of all 24 states belonging to the EU block. The time has come for this status to change with the appearance of EuroLLM, a foundational model that supports them all.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18448-europe-gets-its-own-llm.html

 A new major version of Grails has been announced, together with news of its graduation to an Apache top-level project.

Despite its already long life, which began in 2005, the venerable JVM project just got out of incubation, graduating to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. What is the importance of that?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18441-apache-grails-70-released.html

 Copilot breaks loose from its deep integration with VSCode, and now embraces the CLI Warriors in offering a terminal-based interface too. At last Copilot gets its own CLI version, bringing it up to par with competitors like Gemini CLI or Claude Code CLI.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18432-github-copilot-cli-and-spaces-in-preview.html

 Microsoft has merged Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to create the Agent Framework, stirring the AI Agent waters.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18425-exploring-the-microsoft-agent-framework.html

 Introducing OpenCode, an opensource, powerful, fully-hackable AI coding agent for the terminal that takes on commercial agents head to head.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18435-opencode-the-claude-code-alternative-.html

 Google brings the power of Chrome DevTools to AI coding assistants with its Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol server, now in public preview. 

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18416-chrome-devtools-to-benefit-from-mcp.html

 Google's AI Studio can now generate Angular applications. Add the Web Codegen Scorer tool on top and you get a pretty solid Angular development platform.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/18414-google-ai-studio-does-angular.html

 IBM has launched Granite 4.0, the next generation of open-source, small but efficient, IBM language models, together with Granite-Docling, the next gen document format converter.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18409-ibm-launches-granite-version-40-and-granite-docling-.html

 New options are now available for Jules, Google's coding Agent - a CLI and an API. We covered the release of Jules back in August, see Google Jules Coding Assistant Now Available. To cut a long story short, we found that Jules is:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18404-jules-coding-agent-upgraded.html

 It's been some years since we first looked at Qodana, the solid SAST tool from JetBrains. Let's find out what's new in its latest release, Qodana 2025.2.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18398-qodana-revisited-.html