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Last year we built an #opensource test-bed for evaluating locally hosted AI solutions in the Canton of Uri. Now the platform is running #Apertus to give hackathon participants real-time coaching and evaluation of their efforts. Thanks @janikvonrotz for the support & engaged beta-testing.

Seems like "Kantonsmitarbeitende" is one of those words that one just has to know to get by https://hack.digital-cluster-uri.ch/project/24/log

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o lаvrоvsky 1d ago

More information on #Apertus can be found in the dedicated page on the hackathon platform #Dribdat #OpenSourceLLM https://bd.hack4socialgood.ch/project/143

Apertus

Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI. Developed by the Swiss AI Initiative as a collaborative effort between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS. Open weights, open data, open science.

o lаvrоvsky 1d ago

During my intro at #Hack4Socialgood this morning, I used 🤗 Hugging Face playground to quickly show #Apertus prediction for the hackathon compared to the Olmo model from #AllenAI and #EuroLLM

Prompt and response in the ALT. Try it yourself at https://huggingface.co/playground?modelId=swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509

Janik

1d ago

Hackdays Uri 2026 have been kicked off 🤩

Everything happening will be documented on https://hack.digital-cluster-uri.ch/ . Now powered by #Apertus and #publicai .

#hackathon #HackDays #HackdaysUri

Hackdays Uri 2026

Ein Raum für kollaboratives Tüfteln, Entwickeln und Experimentieren – offen für alle, die digitale Zukunft mitgestalten wollen

Andrei Kucharavy 2d ago

#Apertus workshop led by @loleg at #SwissAIDays2026, attracting a massive interest from ML and AI practitioners across industry, government offices, and academia.

o lаvrоvsky 3d ago

The authors would have liked to use #Apertus instead of Gemma for the LLM-as-judge framework, but cited some incompatibilites at #AIDays that I will look into addressing.

IA4FriLex: Enhancing The Legislative Consultation Process With AI

Ornella Vaccarelli, Beat Wolf, Talia B. Kimber, Thomas Christin, Thomas Kadelbach
https://ai-days.swiss-ai-center.ch/en/papers/block-2

o lаvrоvsky 3d ago

Great to be back at HEIA-FR in Fribourg, looking forward to the #AIDays posters, workshops and exchanges on sustainability and other topics. Details of our #Apertus workshop today here https://ai-days.swiss-ai-center.ch/en/workshops/understanding-apertus

Understanding Apertus, the Swiss LLM research platform - AI Days

This workshop introduces the Apertus LLM, an open-source large language model developed through the Swiss National AI Initiative (SNAI). We begin with...

AI Days @ HES-SO

o lаvrоvsky Mar 18

I asked OpenAI to write a prompt that describes its own logo as SVG, then fed that one-shot into #Apertus .. not bad!

Reto Vogt Mar 15

Ein halbes Jahr ist seit dem Launch von #Apertus verstrichen. Für die "NZZ am Sonntag" habe ich untersucht, was daraus geworden ist. Das Fazit ist ernüchternd: Kaum jemand nutzt es. Und ausgerechnet der wichtigste Partner setzt auf Anthropic und OpenAI.

https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/nett-aber-nicht-praxistauglich-warum-das-eth-projekt-apertus-nicht-zum-fliegen-kommt-ld.1927876?gift=pW_o7SOf (Geschenk-Link)