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

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Post by amai » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

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

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Post by raychis » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

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

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Post by throwa356262 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 6:29 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by k__ » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

"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.

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

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Post by mft_ » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 7:17 PM UTC

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.