5. August 2025|
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|4 months agoSwitzerland to Launch Indigenous Open Source AI Model
ETH Zurich and EPFL announce plans to develop Switzerland's own open-source large language model, emphasizing ethical AI development and scientific transparency.

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- ETH Zurich and EPFL are developing a public, open-source large language model (LLM).
- The project is coordinated by the new Swiss National AI Institute and involves over 70 AI researchers.
- The model is expected to be released later in 2025.
- The model will be fully open, with source code, weights, and training data publicly available.
- The training dataset includes over 1,500 languages.
By The Numbers
10,000
NVIDIA Grace Hopper chips
1,000+
languages supported
70+
AI researchers
10
Swiss institutions
They Said
"Fully open models enable high-trust applications and are necessary for advancing research about the risks and opportunities of AI."
"We have emphasised making the models massively multilingual from the start."
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Challenging the Silicon Valley Titans
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Unleashing the Power of Alps
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Radical Transparency and Ethics
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Breaking the Language Barrier
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