EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

First “modern and powerful” open source LLM?

Key features

  • Fully open model: open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes
  • Massively Multilingual: 1811 natively supported languages
  • Compliant Apertus is trained while respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey), and avoiding memorization of training data
  • dwt@feddit.orgDeutsch
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    6 days ago

    This begs the question: how Good is it? Did anyone test it yet?

    • hylaea@reddthat.com
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      5 hours ago

      well i tested it and wasn’t impressed. my prompts were about Python3, that i’m working on a script and if i could show the AI my code so we can work together on it. It didn’t wait for my input, just gave me an endless python tutorial. I said wait till i show you my code but nope…