Apertus v1.1 0.5B Instruct
Overview
Apertus-v1.1-0.5B-Instruct is a 0.5B parameter multilingual instruction-tuned language model built via pre-training distillation from an 8B teacher model. Supports 1811 natively integrated languages on a dense transformer with grouped-query attention and xIELU activation. Apache 2.0 licensed with fully open weights, data, and training details.
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 Instituteโa partnership between the ETH AI Center and the EPFL AI Centerโleveraging 800+ researchers (70 AI-focused professors) from 10+ Swiss academic institutions.
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