If there's one thing Retrospectiva does for me - other than giving me an excuse to write for you of course - it's making me realise how fast time moves.

It's June already - and May was – well – hectic to say the least.

Data Makers Fest was awesome - and I absolutely love Porto …

About 6 months ago I wrote a small rant on how open source TTS models still sucked. 6 months later, I'm happy to report that isn't the case anymore.

January this year, Qwen, the famous Chinese AI lab, released Qwen3-TTS, an open-weights series of TTS models. The release included 2 …

A couple of months ago I released Bagaço - a pretraining dataset for European Portuguese. The idea was simple: take the FineWeb 2 dataset, limit it to web pages that look like they came from Portugal, and classify them into categories …

Another month bites the dust. We've been back in Denmark for the past couple of weeks. I often joke that these are the only months in the year where Copenhagen is actually …

In December 2024, the Portuguese government announced AMÁLIA: a 5.5 Million Euro investment on a large-scale LLM for European Portuguese1.

The other day, while building an overview of the different Portuguese NLP efforts, I stumbled upon the technical report! I couldn't believe my eyes. Much to talk about …

Well, now would you look at that. Article 100 on this website. Ten years of writing on this small corner of the web. I'm writing this month's newsletter from my favourite place: the airplane.

Happy Easter if you celebrate. With clients spread across time zones, I didn't really get the …

As you get older, life becomes complicated. Not in a bad way. There’s just more going on. We don’t all want to run marathons. Maybe you want to run a parkrun. Maybe you want to gradually increase your volume. Maybe you don't want to run at all. Whatever …

Given some text in Portuguese, how easy is it to determine if it's from Brazil or Portugal1? For native speakers, this is pretty easy – it's almost a feeling. But for machines: not so much.

This might seem like a useless problem at first. But in the age of language …

Happy February! Just like that, we are close to wrapping up the first quarter of 2026. After quite some time roaming around, we finally flew back home to Copenhagen. It's cold, windy, and grey, but it's also calm, organized, and cozy. Most of all: it's home.

Another good thing about …