Apertus v1.1 4B Instruct
Overview
A 4B parameter instruction-tuned language model created via pre-training distillation from the Apertus-8B teacher model. Uses a dense transformer decoder with grouped-query attention and xIELU activations, trained on 1.7T tokens. Natively supports 1811 languages with quantized checkpoints available for mobile and edge deployment. Apache-2.0 licensed.
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 Institute—a partnership between the ETH AI Center and the EPFL AI Center—leveraging 800+ researchers (70 AI-focused professors) from 10+ Swiss academic institutions.
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