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The state of AI in Ireland, November 2026
What the official pages say about adoption, law, money, research, compute, industry and the Irish language. Where two sources disagree, both figures are kept.
Leemer Group · Research updateIntroducing Square Pigeons: unusual ideas, proper engineering
Why a pigeon, why a square one, and why Leemer Group is creating a software studio that brings its engineering to people and companies with ambitious ideas.
Leemer Group · Research updateStudents should build now. We’ll pay for the tools.
Critique Code All-in free, a frontier subscription of your choice, domain and hosting, a €100 GPU grant and €100 in Born API credits for three months. For promising young founders, up to €3,000 in cash, API credits and partner tools, plus mentoring and potential internships.
Leemer Group · Founder’s journalFunding an AI project in Ireland: which support fits which work
Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices each fund a different part of an AI project. A plain guide to Digital Discovery, the Grow Digital Voucher and Digital Process Innovation, with official sources.
Leemer Group · Research updateWhere your intelligence lives: the case for European AI
A Senate hearing, a pending court case and an AI Act arriving in stages. Repath Khan on why European and Irish enterprises should decide deliberately where their AI runs, and what Leemer Group has built to help.
Leemer Group · Founder’s journalIntroducing Born2-9B: a small model for serious code review
A 9B dense code-review specialist, taught by MiMo-V2.6, GLM-5.3 and Qwen3.8-2.4T. In API preview now from Europe at $0.08 input, $0.01 cache hits and $0.20 output per million tokens, with open weights to follow.
Leemer Labs · Research updateBorn2 enters its final phase: three models, three clear jobs
A 9B Irish model you can self-host, a 35B-A3B code-review specialist and a model small enough for your phone. Built on Qwen3.5 and our 50B-token dataset, with a European API and €20 of free credit coming soon.
Leemer Labs · Research updateWhy Leemer Group exists
From Leemer Chat in February 2023 to research, developer tools and civic technology. Repath Khan on one group of products, each with its own identity.
Leemer Group · Founder’s journalThe future of Irish-language AI
Leemer Labs on licensed data, fluent-speaker evaluation and the infrastructure a language needs.
Leemer Labs · Source reading noteOpen source is language infrastructure
Why inspectable models and documented evaluation matter for lower-resource languages.
Leemer Labs · Source reading noteIntroducing Born-9B Preview
An applied model release, with an adapter, evaluation artifacts and a public account of the work.
Leemer Labs · Source reading noteLeemer Chat reaches general availability
A product release note on the workspace’s development across chat, research and creative tools.
Leemer Chat · Source reading note