Switzerland Unveils Apertus: Open, EU-Compliant AI Model Trained on 1,800+ Languages
Switzerland launched Apertus — an open, transparent AI model — as an alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. Its code, weights and training data are published on HuggingFace. Trained on 1,800+ languages and offered in 8B and 70B-parameter versions, Apertus is designed to comply with EU copyright rules and honors crawler opt-outs.