Switzerland has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) race with the launch of a national Large Language Model (LLM) to provide an alternative to the likes of ChatGPT, Llama and DeepSeek. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Designed by leading Swiss universities, the Apertus LLM is comparable to Meta’s Llama 3 model from 2024. Since then, Meta and other rivals have produced more advanced versions. But the Swiss team insist they are not trying to compete with the multi-billion dollar budgets of United States trailblazers. They are happy to sacrifice the latest frills aimed at general users in favour of a safer and more accessible AI system for scientific researchers and commerce. + How Switzerland strives to steer a safe AI course “We aim to provide a blueprint for how a trustworthy, sovereign and inclusive AI model can be developed,” said Martin Jaggi, professor of machine learning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL. Hallucinations ...
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