The Swiss AI Initiative is running experiments and training an LLM on the Alps supercomputer, operational at CSCS since September 2024. About 50% of the capacity was used in the Apertus 1.0 release. Here are some technical details of the total capacity of Alps:

For more technical references, see the Sources further below.

Initial benchmarks

See the Evaluation section of the Apertus Model Card, and Section 5 of the Tech Report for more data.

You can find an initial independent evaluation at effektiv.ch, and we will update this page with a shortlist of others soon.

References