Apertus

Open weights, open data, open science

Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI – developed by the Swiss AI Initiative in collaboration between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS.

Fully Open

Training data, code, weights, methods, alignment principles: all documented and reproducible. Apertus is to AI as Open is to Source.

Responsible at Scale

A range of innovative techniques to respect opt-outs, remove PII, and prevent 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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