Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

Post by dtech » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 3:02 AM UTC

himata4113 wrote: post #5

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

Post by andsoitis » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:10 AM UTC

cristoperb wrote: post #10

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/

Post by cristoperb » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:22 AM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #13

cristoperb wrote: post #10

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/

Is it any good?

Post by andsoitis » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:49 AM UTC

Post by nicolaric » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

cristoperb wrote: post #15

andsoitis wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it any good?

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