Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

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cristoperb•about 2 hours ago

Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai. They've published both the base and the instruct sft models. Very cool that projects like this exist.

https://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/

andsoitis•16 minutes ago

Is it any good?

cristoperb•3 minutes ago

I haven't tried it for anything myself yet. The paper provides several benchmarks. The emphasis during training was on multi-language support (over 1800 languages are represented in its pre-training data, which is 40% non-English) and non-copyrighted training data... and the benchmarks seem to suffer for it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14233

himata4113•about 3 hours ago

2023, but deadlines less than a month ago? Seems to be been updated continiously so (2023) doesn't really fit here.

dtech•about 1 hour ago

I propose every Linux post should be tagged (1991) from now on

gnabgib•about 5 hours ago

(2023) Little said at the time (4 points, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38529956

shlewis•about 2 hours ago

Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?

kuerbel•12 minutes ago

Why is it not written in French? Or Italian? Or Romansh? Because Switzerland has four official languages and English makes it easier for everyone

dirasieb•about 2 hours ago

english is the lingua franca

TMWNN•about 3 hours ago

Related 2023 discussion (22 comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523736>

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

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