Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:

📰 https://www.swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2025/09/02-apertus.html

🤝 The model supports over 1000 languages [EDIT: an earlier version claimed over 1800] and respects opt-out consent of data owners.

▶ This is great for #publicAI and #transparentAI. If you want to test it for yourself, head over to: https://publicai.co/

🤗 And if you want to download weights, datasets & FULL TRAINING DETAILS, you can find them here:
https://huggingface.co/collections/swiss-ai/apertus-llm-68b699e65415c231ace3b059

🔧 Tech report: https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509/blob/main/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf

After #Teuken7b and #Olmo2, Apertus is the next big jump in capabilities and performance of #FOSS #LLMs, while also improving #epistemicresilience and #epistemicautonomy with its multilingual approach.

I believe that especially for sensitive areas like #education, #healthcare, or #academia, there is no alternative to fully open #AI models. Everybody should start building upon them and improving them.

#KIMündigkeit #SovereignAI #FOSS #ethicalAI #swissai #LernenmitKI

Dieser Kommentar auf @golem von Tim Elsner - "Hingewurschtelt in Germany" - trifft viele Nägel auf den Kopf: https://www.golem.de/news/ki-aus-deutschland-hingewurschtelt-in-germany-2508-198985.html

Auch wenn ich nicht an jeder einzelnen Stelle zustimme, finde ich die Analyse der Lage richtig. Zum Beispiel: Das #Teuken #LLM ist zwar #opensource und teuer gewesen, aber unbrauchbar (im Unterschied zu #olmo2 und vielleicht bald dem #swissai Modell der ETH).

Innovative Forschung ist schon allein aufgrund des lästigen Förderwesens der Wissenschaft in Deutschland mit seinen langen Schleifen im Bereich #KI nicht zu erwarten und Projekte, die Mittel erhalten, scheinen sich auf Prüfsiegel und Vermarktung zu konzentrieren, die man auch sehr viel günstiger hätte haben können.

Natürlich wird viel zu selten nach einem Endprodukt gefragt, das einen innovativen Mehrwert liefert. Auch die Gutachter:innen lesen Abschlussberichte mit einem Übermaß an Wohlwollen, oder

#KI #Schule #Bildung #LernenmitKI

OLMo: (Миниатюрная) Открытая Языковая Модель

OLMo — моделька от AI2, разработанная учёными для учёных. Если вы занимаетесь экспериментами над нейронками, это идеальный вариант: весь код и данные, необходимые для тренировки, открыто лежат на GitHub . Более того, выложены даже промежуточные чекпоинты, с очень высокой гранулярностью. Это отличает ее от якобы "открытых" нейронок, которые обычно приходят к тебе монолитным финальным бинарём. Эта статья — короткий гайд, адаптированный с GitHub создателей нейросети и проверенный на практике. Интересно. Читать далее

https://habr.com/ru/companies/bar/articles/906500/

#llm #olm #olmo #olmo2 #tranformers #opensource #ai #anarchic #anarchic_ai #1red2black

Commercial #LLMs are shifting right (links in screenshot alt text). This value shift is not a coincidence, but done intentionally by the corporations behind them (#OpenAI, #Meta...).

This is a extremely serious problem. People increasingly use genAI as their sources for "truth" or facts, even for mundane inquiries.

With enough time and interactions, this COULD BE a way for #AI to use a latent "onboarding program" where users are increasingly exposed to (alt-) right adjacent ideas.

A solution for now might be to use fully open LLMs (#Olmo2 is one of the few) and to making transparancy tools like transluce.org mandatory for AI corporations.

BUT it is important for schools, universities and others in #education to refrain from using AI systems from companies doing this. (Looking at #fobizz, #bwgpt and so on).

We should stop focusing on "skills" and "competencies" when it comes to AI, but instead ask for sovereignty - KI-Mündigkeit.

#FediLZ #KIMuendigkeit #AISovereignty

Ai2 now has a tool, where you can trace the outputs of LLMs to their possible sources in the training materials. It's very interesting.

Obviously only works with fully open models like their OLMo family of models. More info here: https://allenai.org/blog/olmotrace

Can be tested here: https://playground.allenai.org/

#LLM #OLMo2 #AI

Mlx-community/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct-4bit

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/16/olmo2/

#HackerNews #MlxCommunity #OLMo2 #4bit #AI #Technology #Innovation

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Flux image model: https://civitai.com/models/646328

#AIGenerated #Ollama #olmo2 #Flux

#OLMo2 32B: First fully #opensource model to outperform #GPT3.5 and #GPT4o mini 🔥

🧵👇 #MachineLearning #AI #llm