https://ai.ethz.ch/news-and-events/ai-center-news/2026/07/apertus-15-building-the-next-generation-of-open-ai-infrastruct...

https://ai.ethz.ch/news-and-events/ai-center-news/2026/07/apertus-15-building-the-next-generation-of-open-ai-infrastructure.htmlVery cool, yes, I know, it's llm's news, but please:- “Apertus is not about competing with frontier models from private companies, but about providing trustworthy, transparent AI that organizations big and small can build upon with confidence” - Schlag. Open:- source code- training data- deployment- weights- etc.#ai #llm #opendata I recommend also reading https://www.apertus-ai.org/articles/2026-04-acl/ :"- Pretrains models exclusively on openly available data, respecting robots.txt exclusions and filtering out toxic and personally identifiable content.- Adopts the “Goldfish objective” during pretraining to suppress verbatim memorization of data, while maintaining model performance.- Trains on 15 trillion tokens of text from over 1,800 languages, with approximately 40% of pretraining data allocated to non-English content."Even if their performance is really su...