Mastodawn

„Infrastructure is a necessary prerequisite [of sovereign AI], but it is the models and products that generate value.“ — Thomas Schulthess interviewed in #Netzwoche #CSCS #Apertus
https://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2026-05-06/wie-das-cscs-und-apertus-die-ki-zukunft-der-schweiz-sichern

Wie das CSCS und Apertus die KI-Zukunft der Schweiz sichern

Mit Alps betreibt das Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) einen der mächtigsten Supercomputer Europas. Zu seinen ersten Erfolgen gehört das KI-Modell Apertus, wie CSCS-Direktor Thomas Schulthess sagt. Im Interview erklärt er, warum er Apertus nicht als Schweizer KI-Modell sieht und warum man zwar digital souverän, aber nicht autonom sein kann.

MarketForces Africa May 16

Operators in the Nigerian capital market have assured investors and stakeholders of their readiness for the transition to the T+1 settlement cycle scheduled to commence on Monday, June 1.

https://dmarketforces.com/cscs-other-market-operators-set-for-t1-settlement-transition/

#CSCS #t1settlement

CSCS, Other Market Operators Set For T+1 Settlement Transition

Operators in the Nigerian capital market have assured investors and stakeholders of their readiness for the transition to the T+1 settlement cycle sc

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sandor Feb 18

Builder? Labourer? To apply for a #CSCS card you are required to pass the appropriate level of #CITB Health, safety and environment (HS&E) test within the last two years! https://apps.apple.com/app/cscs-hs-e-test-revision/id6757822161

MarketForces Africa Dec 19

The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) has appointed Mr Shehu Shantali as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective Jan. 1, 2026, following the receipt of regulatory no-objection.

https://dmarketforces.com/cscs-names-shehu-shantali-chief-executive-officer/

#CSCS

CSCS Names Shehu Shantali Chief Executive Officer

The Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS) has appointed Mr Shehu Shantali as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective Jan. 1, 202

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o lаvrоvsky Dec 13

New blog post from the first two #SNAI #SMECircle meetings, highlighting practical applications, encouraging discussion around tools like #Apertus & public infrastructure like #CSCS #Alps - with a focus on responsible and sustainable use: https://log.alets.ch/115/

115 #snai #smecircle

Notes from the first and second editions of the Swiss AI SME Circle: at the AI+X Summit in October and Altstetten yesterday.

log.alets.ch

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o lаvrоvsky Oct 2, 2025

In response to my question on #openhardware and alternatives to CUDA, he hopes that #OpenCL will rise to the challenge of demanding 64-bit+ models rather than the current focus on 4-bit quantized builds that are insufficient for HPC science.

See also my notes and links on MLP like #Apertus at #CSCS at https://swissai.dribdat.cc/project/14

MLP docs

Documentation and tutorials from projects at the CSCS

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o lаvrоvsky Oct 2, 2025

How much power does 3 month of training #Apertus on the most powerful open research cloud-native supercomputer in Europe?

⚡️About the same as raising 5 people to adulthood, or 50% peak (10MW) of a locomotive. Keep industrial power usage in perspective, and acknowledge the efforts into climate neutrality, asks Joost VandeVondele - who aims to scale up the infrastructure to support thousands of AI experiments and hundreds of SMEs in the future at #CSCS

MarketForces Africa Sep 11, 2025

The Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) on Wednesday sensitised capital market stakeholders on the smooth transition to a T+2 settlement cycle ahead of its Nov. 28 launch.

https://dmarketforces.com/cscs-sensitises-stakeholders-on-t2-settlement-cycle/?amp=1

#CSCS

CSCS Sensitises Stakeholders On T+2 Settlement Cycle

The Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) on Wednesday sensitised capital market stakeholders on the smooth transition to a T+2 settlement

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Sep 5, 2025

#Switzerland launches transparent #ChatGPT alternative
#Apertus: A fully #opensource, transparent, multilingual language model
The Apertus #LLM is comparable to Meta’s #Llama3 model from 2024
The development of the #largelanguagemodel (#LLM) and the research into other domain-specific foundation models is funded by an investment of over 10 million GPU hours on the “#Alps” #Supercomputer by #CSCS, and by the ETH Board
https://www.cscs.ch/science/computer-science-hpc/2025/apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-model

Apertus: A fully open, transparent, multilingual language model | CSCS

EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

Niclas Sep 4, 2025

Meet #Apertus a #LLM from #Switzerland developed by #EPFL, #ETH and #CSCS. It's fully #opensource and trained in #alps

Here some facts about it:
* trained with 15 trillion tokens
* 1'000 languages supported
* maximum 70 billion parameters
* Trained on 4'096 GPU's for over 3 months
* Trained by respecting Swiss data protection laws, Swiss copyright laws, and the transparency obligations under the EU AI Act

I will definitely give it a try.

For more informations:

https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus

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