Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
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- #open science
- #EU compliance
- A set of 16 small language models demonstrating distillation and quantization techniques.
- Developed by the Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS) with open weights, data, and science.
- Fully documented and reproducible, aligning with open-source principles.
- Designed to comply with EU AI Act, including opt-outs, PII removal, and anti-memorization.
- Competitive with top open models at 8B and 70B scales, multilingual with training in 1000+ languages.
- Swisscom is a strategic partner of the initiative.