“Qra is the first of its kind and the best in modeling Polish language equivalent of open tools like Meta or Mistral AI. Qra understands Polish content better, has an improved comprehension of asked questions and produces coherent texts,” the press office of the Gdańsk University of Technology put out in a statement

A computing environment dedicated to building artificial intelligence models was created at Gdańsk University of Technology in IT Competence Center STOS, one of the most advanced IT centers in this part of Europe with a supercomputer Kraken.

The teams worked about six months on preparing the environment, creating tools and models, training them (based on content from areas such as law, technology, social sciences, biomedicine, religion or sport) and testing them. “Thanks to the rich infrastructure available at STOS, the actual training process for the most complex models was shortened from years to about a month,” the university reports.

The Qra models will constitute the basis for IT solutions to handle issues and processes that require a better understanding of the Polish language.

“At this stage, Qra is a fundamental language model that can generate grammatically and stylistically correct answers in Polish. The created content is of very high quality, which can be confirmed by the perplexity measure, among other things,” the statement added.

The team will start working on tuning the models to verify their capabilities of classifying texts, summarizing them, and answering questions.