Netherlands Moves GPT-NL from Lab to Live: First Pilots Under Way

MoFo’s Lokke Moerel, is quoted by ComputerWeekly.com in an article reporting on the progress of GPT-NL, the Netherlands’ own national large language model, which is entering a feasibility and testing phase. Underpinning the GPT-NL project is a strategic argument about digital autonomy. 

Lokke advised the project on legal architecture, frames the GPT-NL project as a strategic necessity: “If you only make rules for technology that others build, you will always be chasing events. You need to build technology yourself, otherwise you remain dependent on foreign suppliers and have no negotiating position.”

Lokke also noted that the project is still in a nascent stage: “This is still a startup in some ways. The real challenge begins now: how do you make this something scalable, something that structurally becomes part of society?” while also commenting this is an important time to make sustained investment into such initiatives, “this is precisely the moment to push forward.”

The GPT-NL project was a 2026 winner at the Dutch Privacy Awards in the Awareness category, and a winner in the 2026 Dutch AI Awards in Initiatives category.

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