Switzerland

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...

OpenAI announced on December 3 that it will build a new office in Zurich, marking the company's first location in Switzerland, with the goal of further expanding into the European market. OpenAI is expanding globally, with plans to open new offices in a number of cities, including New York, Seattle, Brussels, Paris and Singapore, as well as existing offices in London and Tokyo. Zurich has become an important technology hub in Europe, with renowned research institutions such as ETH Zurich, attracting many technology companies to set up R&D centers there. OpenA...