Switzerland's Apertus is fully open down to the data — and has no GPUs (apertvs.ai)
Apertus ships in 8B and 70B sizes, claims more than 1,000 languages, and bakes in EU-AI-Act compliance: PII removal, opt-out respect, memorization prevention. The pitch is total reproducibility — "to AI as Open is to Source" — not benchmarks. Cutoff: March 2024.
One founder reports building real RAG software on it today; it is not ready for agentic work, but it drives. Skeptics aimed at the institution: a model moving at committee speed, a country with no domestic GPUs, and a project whose best output may be the people it trained.
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