German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

It tops benchmarks because it uses them in its training data. https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2077425801633427919

Great to see more competition in this space, and especially from Europe, but... it's a shame when the benchmarks don't include the current best comparable models. They shows results against Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 3, but Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 have been available for ~three months.

How can we get these things to fight each other for sport? Real battle bots

Some other (as in better) sources I found:

- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Soofi-Project/Pretraining-Tech...

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.09424

"Fully open source model" with "Long-term, license-free availability for industry"

Nice trick to be not comparable with most other LLMs on the market, open weight or proprietary.

But I think, that's the right way.

I think this news is more about the infrastructure than the model.

Either way, happy to see two open models from outside the us-cn duopoly in the same week.

Better late than never. Germans have entered the chat