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#Apertus workshop led by @loleg at #SwissAIDays2026, attracting a massive interest from ML and AI practitioners across industry, government offices, and academia.
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#webdev #gamedev #geography #topography #geodata #gis #opendata #ogd #map #mapping #8bit #retrocomputing @OpendataCH @geomob @spatialists @loleg
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I wanted to create a new Zitat theme for less technical and more "human" quotes. What better start than with @loleg now as relevant as it was in the original talk, on feeling isolated. Read the whole interview: https://www.heltweg.org/posts/meta-data-2-oleg-lavrovsky-hacking-integration/ #hackathons #opendata
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The 52-gram light „Open source gadget with mini joystick“ a.k.a. #Ploopy Bean was featured in #Digitec magazine
https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/a-trackpoint-for-every-computer-42574 -
Our team found new ways to put #Apertus and other locally hosted LLMs on the desktops of less-technical users #ClimateAction
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A set of interviews with an organizer and participants of the recent #Hack4SocialGood event is a retrospective of many current day issues: encouraging teamwork, proliferation of vibe coding, fairness aspects [In German] #sozialinfo #hackathons
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With Marco Bernasocchi from OPENGIS.ch, Gerhard Andrey of ParlDigi, Liv Marte Nordhaug of #DPGA
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With Marco Bernasocchi from OPENGIS.ch, Gerhard Andrey of ParlDigi, Liv Marte Nordhaug of #DPGA
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With Marco Bernasocchi from OPENGIS.ch, Gerhard Andrey of ParlDigi, Liv Marte Nordhaug of #DPGA
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With Marco Bernasocchi from OPENGIS.ch, Gerhard Andrey of ParlDigi, Liv Marte Nordhaug of #DPGA
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With Marco Bernasocchi from OPENGIS.ch, Gerhard Andrey of ParlDigi, Liv Marte Nordhaug of #DPGA
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While in a session with national councillors and esteemed guests, I asked #Apertus to comment on alignment with Digital Public Goods (DPGs) from the perspective of its own Charter
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Switzerland is a great place for doing experiments at altitude, in a literal and metaphorical sense.
From an #ETHZ presentation by Christian Holz https://www.christianholz.net/
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Great to see that #Apertus has been highlighted as a digitally independent alternative to ChatGPT yesterday! However, this needs a quick fact-check:
- The model was trained in a local data center at CSCS, the costs of the project are almost entirely covered by Swiss public institutions;
- People from all over the world have made contributions - open source LLM development is a global community of interest;
- There are groups in several countries using or fine-tuning Apertus to improve linguistic capabilities and local knowledge;
- While Apertus can run on Amazon servers, thanks to a third-party deployment script, it runs anywhere LLMs can run;
- Quantized versions are available to fit even relatively cheap consumer grade video cards (see my blog posts for details);
- The #PublicAI web interface and Apertus 8B demo runs on AWS, however the large model is hosted by CSCS as well;
- You do not need to use Google to authenticate to Public AI, it is just a convenient way to log into #OpenWebUI - if you want another provider, please suggest it;
- Apertus is not a chatbot on its own, it is a large language model that can be deployed as part of a system to provide chat services.I'll send this to the maintainers as well. Did I miss anything?
https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes/alternativen-zu-chatgpt-co#different-ways-to-cook
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Civic #Hackathons bring together administration, professionals and users to develop innovative solutions in a short time. Yet how effective these formats are depends crucially on how the teams are formed. How can #diversity be promoted with technical support? Our work funded by #Innosuisse and implemented in #Dribdat is featured in a (German language) edition of the BFH Social Work magazine #KnotenMaschen https://www.bfh.ch/soziale-arbeit/de/aktuell/blog-knoten-maschen/artikel/vielfalt-als-ressource-koennen-algorithmen-bessere-teams-bilden/
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Just added the 100th paper to the Zotero library tracking publications and citations of interest to #Apertus https://www.zotero.org/groups/6385576/apertus
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Featherless.ai now has #Apertus available - let me know if you're giving the service a go
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Explore a demo of agentic development with the #PublicAI API shared in Vasco’s #Apertus #OpenHands #OpenEduDay repo: https://tinyurl.com/apertus-tutor
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"You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math." -- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) #EPFL #Apertus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
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Some quick and sloppy poetry in Swiss-German - same prompt with #Apertus 70B on the left, 8B (feat. SEA-LION) on the right. On popular request 🙂 #Bärndüütsch
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Here is an #Apertus summary of the section „Datensouveränität als moderner Heimatschutz“:
> Data sovereignty starts with artificial intelligence. It would be hubris for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG) to attempt to develop its own Swiss Large Language Model to compete with giants like Open AI or Google. However, the SRG can provide the crucial fuel for an independent Swiss AI.
> When we use global AI models today, we get responses based on Californian values, Anglo-Saxon logic, and often a distorted view of our small-state nature. The SRG holds the unique, multilingual data treasure of this country, large enough to train national AI projects—such as the ETH's Apertus model—to understand our nuances, our four national languages, and above all, our dialects.
> Public service in 2026 means processing Switzerland's digital raw material so that our cultural identity doesn’t get washed away in the age of algorithms. The SRG must become the guardian of data sovereignty to prevent Switzerland from becoming a digital colony in the digital sphere.
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In a recent NZZ article, Barnaby Skinner argues that the SRG (national broadcaster, target of a recent cost-cutting referendum) needs be a public utility, re- focus on producing high quality, open content: including for use in models like #Apertus - along with other recommendations for a democratic Swiss media landscape https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-architektur-der-ahnungslosigkeit-warum-der-service-public-ein-neues-betriebssystem-braucht-ld.1930447
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Lizzy 7B is a new UK-specific large language model launched today that performs well compared to EuroLLM 9B and Apertus 8B on key metrics. Deployable via Hugging Face or enterprise support, it offers full control, security, and data privacy for UK enterprises and public sector.
https://flower.ai/models/lizzy/
Summarized by #Apertus
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« Right now, I’m particularly proud of #Apertus. Together with colleagues at ETH Zurich, we developed the first transparent, ethical AI language model. It’s a step toward strengthening Switzerland’s digital autonomy, leaving us less reliant on outside parties whose agendas differ from ours.
What makes it even more meaningful is that the initiative came from the ground up. A group of people had the courage to take on this ambitious challenge. If you’d asked me at the start, I might have doubted it could be done. But they proved it could. That’s the EPFL mindset: making the impossible possible.»
— Anna Fontcuberta-Morral
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Thanks @scottjenson for the props. Just a quick correction: #Apertus was trained by a research consortium on publicly funded infrastructure, but is not government-run.
Let me know if you're interested in knowing more about that 'bathwater'.
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Started work today (at a rather fortuitous time) on a data portal to complement the list of #Apertus datasets on Hugging Face. Feels like I'm finally fully on board here 😃
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On May 1, you are invited by the artists of Effinger in #Bern to an afternoon of showcases and performances on the topic of #FRAGILITY https://www.effinger.ch/events/2026/kunst-im-mai/#t
