tl;dr: The Netherlands is building GPT-NL, a sovereign Dutch language model trained from scratch to avoid copyright, privacy, and data provenance issues inherited from existing models, with source code released as open source and weights under a controlled license. The project, backed by €13.5 million in public funding from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, includes a Content Board giving data providers a say and revenue share, emphasizing transparency, lawful data sourcing, and energy efficiency.