Apertus
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10recommend
1warn against
Nov 21, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Also Apertus: https://apertus-ai.org/”
“both open source (not only open weight) models”
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“Apterus even respects opt-out notices in their collection of the dataset they distribute.”
“Find it useful enough.”
“Although not frontier it is fully open.”
Caveats and dissent
“Is a recipe useful if no one likes it?”
Often compared with
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All comments 19
“https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus Is the model in question”
“Also Apertus: https://apertus-ai.org/”
“Swiss open-source AI model, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS”
Benchmark results in the model card: https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B Long story short: ~equivalent to Olmo 3.1
“Now also on HF”
“both open source (not only open weight) models”
“No idea if it's any good but it's there”
“Apterus even respects opt-out notices in their collection of the dataset they distribute.”
“the Apertus model was trained on the Alps supercomputer”
“A chat interface where you can try Apertus”
“the Apretus project are the people”
“Find it useful enough.”
“Is a recipe useful if no one likes it?”
“Although not frontier it is fully open.”
“Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai.”
“Check out Apertus, the publicly funded model”
“is openly accessible and fully documented”
“if you want a truly open model you can always try Apertus”
“Switzerland, through EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, has released a complete pipeline with all training data”