Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model
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Switzerland has released Apertus, an open-source national AI model developed by public institutions as an alternative to corporate models like OpenAI's. The completely transparent model was trained on 15 trillion tokens across 1,000+ languages and complies with Swiss data protection laws. Available in 8 billion and 70 billion parameter versions, Apertus can be used by anyone to create chatbots, translators, and educational tools through Swisscom or Hugging Face.
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