The Spanish government has signed a deal with US computer giant IBM Corp for the New York-based firm to develop foundational models of artificial intelligence (AI) for not only Spanish but for co-official langugages, such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, and Valencian. In addition, the two parties inked a Memorandum of Understanding or MoU to promote their collaboration in AI and AI supercomputing, advance the development and practical deployment of open, ethical and responsible generative AI in Spain. The MoU also aims to share the vision to create a suite of foundation models including both lar…