Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

cristoperb 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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/

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andsoitis 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it any good?

	▲	cristoperb 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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

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himata4113 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	dtech 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I propose every Linux post should be tagged (1991) from now on

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andsoitis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has anything noteworthy come from this initiative? I have not heard of anything yet.

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gnabgib 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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TMWNN 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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shlewis 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	kuerbel 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Why is it not written in French? Or Italian? Or Romansh? Because Switzerland has four official languages and English makes it easier for everyone
	▲	j7ake an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Most researchers in Switzerland are non-Swiss, and many institutes have English as language of business
	▲	dirasieb 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		english is the lingua franca
	▲	dackdel an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		because the brits won the language wars.