"Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude, reports as spotted by Engadget. The model's source code, training data, model weights, and detailed development process are available on the AI model platform HuggingFace. Apertus, which is Latin for "open," was designed to "set a new baseline for trustworthy and globally relevant open models," according to the developers."
"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. The model was built to adhere to the European Union's copyright laws and voluntary AI code of practice, which some US-based AI companies have said reluctantly signed while claiming that the regulations will curb AI innovation and deployment."
Switzerland launched Apertus, an open-source AI model with source code, training data, model weights, and a detailed development process available on HuggingFace. Apertus was designed to set a new baseline for trustworthy and globally relevant open models and was trained on over 1,800 languages. The model is offered in two sizes, 8 billion and 70 billion parameters, and is comparable to Meta's 2024 Llama 3. Training data was restricted to public sources and complied with AI crawler opt-out requests on certain websites, with no stealth-crawling. Apertus was built to adhere to European Union copyright laws and the voluntary AI code of practice.
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