Italy's Domyn will release a fully open-source AI model within a year, aiming to build one of the most advanced so-called "frontier" systems available, CEO Uljan Sharka said on Thursday.The move comes as Europe seeks alternatives to reduce reliance on foreign-hosted AI systems. Italy and Czechia have restricted remote use of DeepSeek's models while allowing locally hosted deployments. Concerns have escalated over ?U.S. export controls ?on Anthropic's ?models.Domyn's EUROPA consortium, established with Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft research lab, was chosen for the task under the European Commission's Frontier AI Grand Challenge. The project positions Domyn alongside France's Mistral and recent entrant OVHcloud…