A group of researchers from Switzerland is gearing up to launch one of the world’s most open large language models (LLMs) later this summer. The project, led by ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, is built to compete with big commercial AI models. But it promises transparency and multilingual support on a level not seen before.
However, one could ask what’s so special about this forthcoming Swiss model. So the reason is that everything about this LLM will be public, including the source code, training data, and model weights. The model has been trained on public Swiss infrastructure using the “Alps” supercomputer, which relies on green energy and boasts thousands of specialized AI chips.
