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
    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Hmm. That’s a shame. I wonder if there’s a community that’s just about open source code, not all of the other things people feel like labeling open source.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        22·
        3 days ago

        …what? open source is a standardized term defined by the OSI. it’s a licencing term.

      • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
        7·
        3 days ago

        You should check some FOSS, FLOSS communities. Free(dom)/Libre and Open Source Software is more important than Open Source Software itslef in my honest opinion.

        Open Source can be applied to hardware, medicine, lessons, construction blueprints schematics, not only code.