Brian Greenberg 
🇨🇭 Switzerland is taking a public-interest-first approach to LLMs. EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS are building a fully open, multilingual language model trained on public infrastructure, and they’re releasing it under Apache 2.0 this summer. This one isn’t just open weights. It’s 100% transparent: source, data, training methods. And trained on 15T tokens across 1,500+ languages using a carbon-neutral supercomputer (Alps), it’s a real shot at sovereign AI that serves scientific, civic, and commercial needs without the lock-in.
TL;DR
🌍 Fluency in 1,000+ languages
🧠 Open 8B and 70B param models
⚡ Alps supercomputer, 100% green
🔓 Fully open: data, code, weights
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html
#opensourceAI #multilingualAI #sovereignAI #SwissTech #Freedom #AI
A language model built for the public good
ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
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