{"id":117486,"date":"2025-09-04T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117486\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:33:09","slug":"switzerland-releases-open-weight-ai-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117486\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland releases open-weight AI model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Switzerland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-ai\/switzerland-launches-transparent-chatgpt-alternative\/89929269\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT or Anthropic\u2019s Claude, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-ai\/switzerland-launches-transparent-chatgpt-alternative\/89929269\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SWI<\/a> as spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/switzerland-launches-its-own-open-source-ai-model-133051578.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a>. The model\u2019s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed development process are <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/swiss-ai\/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> on the AI model platform HuggingFace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apertus, which is Latin for \u201copen,\u201d was designed to \u201cset a new baseline for trustworthy and globally relevant open models,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/swiss-ai\/apertus-tech-report\/blob\/main\/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">developers<\/a>. The model was trained on over 1,800 languages and comes in two sizes with either 8 billion or 70 billion parameters. Apertus is comparable to the 2024 Llama 3 model from Meta, according to SWI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The model was built to adhere to the European Union\u2019s copyright laws and voluntary AI code of practice, which some US-based AI companies have said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/715710\/google-falls-in-line-with-the-eus-ai-plan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reluctantly signed<\/a> while claiming that the regulations will curb AI innovation and deployment. Apertus\u2019 training data was restricted to public sources, while adhering to the AI crawler opt-out requests on certain websites, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/swiss-ai\/apertus-tech-report\/blob\/main\/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">developers<\/a>. (No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/718319\/perplexity-stealth-crawling-cloudflare-ai-bots-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cstealth-crawling.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,44,1996,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-117486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}