Apertus

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- There's a new player in the global AI race, and this time it's an entire country. Switzerland has officially released Apertus, a national open-source large language model (LLM) that it hopes will become an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI. "Apertus, which comes from the Latin word for "open," was jointly developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS). jointly developed by all three institutions, all of which are public organizations. "Currently, the Aper...