Apr 25
Apertus paper at ACL 2026
Our technical report has been accepted at a leading conference for AI & NLP.
Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
Developed by the Swiss AI Initiative as a collaborative effort between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS. Open weights, open data, open science.
Fully Open
Training data, code, weights, methods, and alignment principles — all documented and reproducible. Apertus is to AI as Open is to Source.
Compliant at Scale
Built to meet EU AI Act requirements: the model respects opt-outs, removes PII, prevents memorization. A global foundation to build on.
Run for Performance
Competitive with top open models at an equivalent scale of 8B and 70B parameters. Multilingual from day one — trained on 1000+ languages.
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