Apertus 70B Instruct 2509
Overview
Apertus 70B Instruct is a fully open 70B-parameter decoder-only language model trained from scratch on 15T tokens using a staged curriculum of web, code, and math data. It natively supports 1811 languages and a 65,536-token context window. Post-trained with SFT and QRPO alignment, it supports tool use and agentic workflows. Weights, training data, and recipes are all publicly released. Licensed Apache 2.0.
About Swiss AI Initiative
The Swiss AI Initiative is the world's largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models, started in December 2023. Seeded with over 10M GPU hours on the Alps supercomputer and a 20M CHF grant from the ETH Domain, it is the first initiative of the Swiss National AI Instituteāa partnership between the ETH AI Center and the EPFL AI Centerāleveraging 800+ researchers (70 AI-focused professors) from 10+ Swiss academic institutions.
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