Switzerland is 100% open-source Apertus, challenging the global model

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) have teamed up to release a large-scale open-source language model called Apertus. Apertus means "open" in Latin, and it does take the word "open" to the extreme. While OpenAI's GPT series, Meta's Llama, and Anthropic's Claude were still playing the "data black box" magic, Apertus made all the model weights, architecture, training code, data recipes, and even the complete training process documentation public, without hiding it at all. (AIGC Open Community)