{"id":133575,"date":"2025-09-05T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133575\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:17:09","slug":"swiss-launch-open-source-ai-model-as-ethical-alternative-to-big-us-llms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133575\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss launch open source AI model as \u201cethical\u201d alternative to big US LLMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need for speed<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ethical appeal of Apertus, it will still need to compete with rivals in terms of AI inference. The notion that organizations needed to go to large closed-source LLM makers to get this was mistaken, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/antoine-bosselut-33372434\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Bosselut<\/a>, assistant professor at \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), which also collaborated on the Swiss LLM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last few years, we heard this narrative that commercial LLM providers were light years ahead of anything that anybody else could create. What I hope we\u2019ve shown here today is that that\u2019s not necessarily the case and that this gap is far less wide than we had imagined,\u201d he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q8iEzU7Axss&amp;t=9s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promotional video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApertus demonstrates that generative AI can be both powerful and open,\u201d said Bosselut. \u201cThe release of Apertus is not a final step, rather it\u2019s the beginning of a journey, a long-term commitment to open, trustworthy, and sovereign AI foundations, for the public good worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Need for speed Despite the ethical appeal of Apertus, it will still need to compete with rivals in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-133575","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-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}