[–] gnabgib 2mo ago ↗ (2023) Little said at the time (4 points, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38529956
[–] TMWNN 2mo ago ↗ Related 2023 discussion (22 comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523736>
[–] himata4113 2mo ago ↗ 2023, but deadlines less than a month ago? Seems to be been updated continiously so (2023) doesn't really fit here.
[–] shlewis 2mo ago ↗ Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask? [–] backscratches 2mo ago ↗ It's a university in a French speaking region for one. [–] arh5451 2mo ago ↗ Because german is hard. [–] rrgok 2mo ago ↗ Why it has to be german?
[–] cristoperb 2mo ago ↗ Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai. They've published both the base and the instruct sft models. Very cool that projects like this exist.https://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/ [–] reconnecting 2mo ago ↗ Tech report:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14233
[–] andsoitis 2mo ago ↗ Has anything noteworthy come from this initiative? I have not heard of anything yet.
[–] throwpoaster 2mo ago ↗ My standard question about Swiss engineering, “how many jewels?”, is failing me.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 28.5 ms ] threadhttps://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14233