Swiss AI Initiative AI Releases: Apertus-8B / Apertus-70B

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Swiss AI Initiative release so far: Apertus-8B / Apertus-70B on Sep 4, 2025. Switzerland launches Apertus-8B and 70B, fully open multilingual LLMs. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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Apertus-8B / Apertus-70B

Switzerland launches Apertus-8B and 70B, fully open multilingual LLMs

The Swiss AI Initiative launched Apertus-8B and Apertus-70B, fully open multilingual LLMs trained on 15T tokens covering more than 1,800 languages. The release stands out for full openness (weights, data recipe, and training transparency) and unusually broad language coverage from a national effort.