#public-ai — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #public-ai, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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After our workshop on #PublicAI for education at #OpenEduDay @CHopen
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Auch wenn die Debatte rund um #digitalsovereignty abflacht, bin ich erstaunt, dass #AI in dieser Diskussion gar nicht stattgefunden hat. @marcuwekling Auch bei #diday taucht das Thema kaum auf.
Wenn wir z.B. in unserem Gesundheitswesen AI einsetzen wollen braucht es dafür öffentliche Infrastruktur und LLMs die unseren Interessen dienen.
AI ist eine bahnbrechende Technologie, die eine demokratische Moderation braucht - ähnlich wie die öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien.Daher wünsche ich mir #publicmoney #publicai
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"Canada has a choice to make about its artificial intelligence future. The Carney administration is investing $2-billion over five years in its Sovereign AI Compute Strategy. Will any value generated by “sovereign AI” be captured in Canada, making a difference in the lives of Canadians, or is this just a passthrough to investment in American Big Tech?" by Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier
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Thankful for the rocking 🎸 support on all sides to make #PublicAI into a viable foundation: to steward and lobby an AI for generations of one Earth 🌍
Grazie a tutti & bonne nuit #wirsindverein -
Pleasure to serve as evaluator at the review meeting in #Rome of the #AI4gov #HorizonEurope project 🇪🇺
Great discussions on AI, public governance & real-world policy impact. Encouraging to see such committed work on AI in the public sector.
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Have you ever wondered about the inner workings of #Apertus - the sovereign AI model that powers Switzerland‘s first #PublicAI Inference Utility?
📅 Join us for a special seminar on Tuesday 10.2 @amld
🤔 We'll be hosting a Q&A with the team: reply to this post with your burning questions, be tagged with a response if accepted!
🧠 To learn about AI ethics, model development, particular use cases, or anything else you're curious about - follow #amld2026 for updates & announcements over the course of the week.
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Quin tipus de tasques mecàniques?
Jo encara estic peix amb la IA però faig servir Public AI, que és de programari lliure i sense ànim de lucre. La faig servir per a consultes que em duria més temps a través del cercador.
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RE: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/115860069680612667
#publicai doet prachtige dingen, onder andere:
⁃ alles #opensource
⁃ transparante system prompts
⁃ privacy-first
⁃ publiek beheerd, zoals een nutsbedrijf
zie: https://publicai.co/stories/utilityEn ze bieden een chat-interface: https://publicai.co/chat
Bedankt voor de tip, @Wtebbens!
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#WorkAdventure 👾 #Apertus 🗻 a quiet chalet on the top of a virtual mountain ❄️ Join me here to explore #PublicAI or just say hello and chat about life, the universe, and whatever's on your mind at https://ciao.spiu.ch
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Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU
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Maybe this is a symptom of a broader issue in AI: imagining it as a tool to substitute existing processes rather than something that can extend our capabilities to do things we never were able to before…
As we think about responsible #CivicAI and even #PublicAI, I think it would be really valuable to ground ourselves in concrete examples of low risk applications, questions of missing capabilities over substitutes, and priorities the public actually WANTS to implement AI to address.
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Why “public AI”, built on open source software, is the way forward for the EU
A quarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generous hackers who took part. Back then, it was clear that open source represented a powerful alternative to the traditional proprietary approach to software […]
#ai #aiAct #cdsm #china #cloudComputing #copyrightDirective #dataMining #eu #freeSoftware #openSource #openSourceInitiative #paulKeller #publicAi #rebelCode #research #startups #supercomputers #tdm #textMining #us #ventureCapital
https://walledculture.org/why-public-ai-built-on-open-source-software-is-the-way-forward-for-the-eu/
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My input into the AI track at #DINAconCH covered some history and shared an outlook for the civil sector, in particular the #PublicAI movement as a way to get behind sovereign ML/AI projects, and build on the foundations of #PublicCode
My slides - and ideas for how to get started - are here: https://hacknight.dinacon.ch/project/103
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Closing remarks, with allusions to trade policy and #EuroStack:
@pluralistic: “I think we’re in the in the first days of the post-American Internet. It may not be a good Internet. But we could make it a good Internet.”
Lina Khan: “We’re going to have to reckon with the question of whether cloud computing should be treated as core infrastructure.”
Cory and Lina for #PublicAI? 👀 -
He programat un bot que connecta amb Apertus: @aibot
Li podem preguntar o consultar el que vulguem.
El codi font del bot l'he pujat al meu repositori https://codeberg.org/spla/aibot.#IA #Apertus #PublicAI https://mastodont.cat/@spla/115405903970475086
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Heading back to #NYC today for #UNGA! Excited to connect with folks working on #FoodSecurity to talk about defining a new research agenda for #AI and what it means to build truly accountable #PublicAI infrastructure ✨
https://www.aspendigital.org/feeding-the-future/ -
@loleg Other tools/services like ChatGPT and Copilot seem to give a fair summary for the exact same question. I know they crawl/sponge what they can get a hold of. I don't know what data source #PublicAI #Apertus use. I'm also on Wikidata (although some outdated) if that matters. But as you can see from the input question, the output is really a hallucination of some sort.
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The evaluation criteria of the Swiss {ai} Weeks hackathons was shared with our participants on the platform, where they have documented their results. After the presentations, the #Apertus model powered by #PublicAI was asked to apply the evaluation criteria to each individual project, from which the AI scoring was derived. There is an uncanny overlap in the distribution with the human votes, which were gathered completely independently of the AI evaluation. "Local produce transportation" and "Tibetan chatbot" tied for first place.
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#PublicAI now hosts #Apertus across multiple data centres: with a little luck, your prompts are processed at CSCS in Lugano #sovereigncompute
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https://publicai.co/about
Public AI inference utility, nonprofit, open-source project.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report/main/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf -
Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:
📰 https://www.swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2025/09/02-apertus.html
🤝 The model supports over 1000 languages [EDIT: an earlier version claimed over 1800] and respects opt-out consent of data owners.
▶ This is great for #publicAI and #transparentAI. If you want to test it for yourself, head over to: https://publicai.co/
🤗 And if you want to download weights, datasets & FULL TRAINING DETAILS, you can find them here:
https://huggingface.co/collections/swiss-ai/apertus-llm-68b699e65415c231ace3b059🔧 Tech report: https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509/blob/main/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf
After #Teuken7b and #Olmo2, Apertus is the next big jump in capabilities and performance of #FOSS #LLMs, while also improving #epistemicresilience and #epistemicautonomy with its multilingual approach.
I believe that especially for sensitive areas like #education, #healthcare, or #academia, there is no alternative to fully open #AI models. Everybody should start building upon them and improving them.
#KIMündigkeit #SovereignAI #FOSS #ethicalAI #swissai #LernenmitKI
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@stefanwagner @tu_muenchen Richtig. Gleichzeitig wartet die KI-Szene da noch auf die ersten Resultate mit mehr Impact. International wird - wenn überhaupt - Black Forest Labs mit Flux gesehen. Aleph-Alpha haben sich in die 3. Liga verabschiedet. Vielleicht dreht sich ja der Diskurs etwas, wenn die ETH bald #Apertus veröffentlicht. Dann könnten bspw. Deutschland und die EU stärker auf KI als öffentliches Gut setzen und Transparenz und Provenienz von Daten gegenüber Systemen aus USA und China zum Alleinstellungsmerkmal machen. #PublicAI
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nicht mit der ausreichenden Fachexpertise.
Das grundlegendere Problem ist aber die illusorische Perspektive der Politik, Deutschland könnte - ohne strategische staatliche Steuerung wie in China, ohne eine Venture-Capital-Kultur wie in USA, und sogar ohne einen entsprechenden Pool an Expert:innen "in der ersten Liga mitspielen". Statt solcher Fantasien sollte man sich hierzulande auf vielversprechende Nischen oder auf unausgelotete neue Wege konzentrieren.
Nimmt man dagegen die geopolitsche Bedeutung von #KI ernst, muss man *jetzt* auf EU-Ebene konzertiert agieren und Mittel, Forschungsansätze, Human Resources, Know-How so teilen, dass man ein Maximum herausholt.
Die Schweiz ist da gewohnt furchtlos und mit #Mistral in Paris gäbe es zumindest eine gute Ausgangsbasis. Denn es geht bei den politischen Implikationen von #LLM s zunehmend um #Werte - gerade im Bereich Bildung. Hier zwischen China und USA ganz auf seine eigene Stimme zu verzichten, könnte Europa noch bereuen.
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When thinking about “sovereign” AI consider the difference between digital sovereignty and digital nationalism. Take the Swiss model (https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/07/14/swiss-ai-for-public-good-a-prosocial-ai-blueprint-for-the-world/) vs the Korean (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/south-korea-to-launch-national-ai-model-in-race-with-us-and-china.html). Listen to @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and think about our approach in Canada as we pursue #publicAI.
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What would it mean to build #AI as a commons, held in trust, accountable to communities—not owned, but stewarded?
Where do we see initiatives like #PublicAI fitting into this? https://openfuture.eu/our-work/ai-and-the-commons/
What more could we imagine together?