Silo AI in cooperation with TurkuNLP and HPLT has released Viking 7B, the first open large language model (LLM) tailored for Nordic languages. Viking 7B is designed to understand and generate Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Swedish languages, as well as English and programming languages. Trained on the LUMI supercomputer, this open-source model emphasizes local values and aims to improve multilingual AI applications.