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Public institution · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Swiss AI Initiative

National research initiative launched in 2023 and co-led by EPFL and ETH Zurich, with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), that develops open AI models such as Apertus.

swiss-ai.org

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Facts

Headquarters
Lausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandInferred[2]

The initiative is not a separate legal entity; it is co-led by EPFL (Lausanne) and ETH Zurich (Zurich), with CSCS in Lugano providing compute. Lausanne is given because EPFL is named as the owner of the Apertus website; Zurich would be equally defensible.

Legal jurisdiction
Switzerland
Ownership
Yes — ETH Domain (EPFL and ETH Zurich) · SwitzerlandVendor claim[1]

The Swiss AI Initiative is the first project of the Swiss National AI Institute, a partnership of the ETH AI Center and the EPFL AI Center. It was seeded with a CHF 20 million grant from the ETH Domain and more than 10 million GPU hours on the Alps supercomputer at CSCS. EPFL and ETH Zurich are federal institutes of technology.

Founded in Switzerland
YesVendor claim[1]

Launched in December 2023 by the ETH AI Center and the EPFL AI Center.

Founded
2023
Canton
Vaud VD

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Products

  • Apertus

    Swiss AI · Lausanne, VD

    Open multilingual language models (8B and 70B) with published weights, data and code.

    Swiss native

    • Swiss Data Option
    • Open Source
    • Free Plan
    Language ModelsFree

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Sources & verification

  1. [1]
    Swiss AI Initiative

    VendorETH AI Center and EPFL AI CenterLast verified

  2. [2]
    Legal notice - Apertus

    VendorEPFLLast verified

  3. [3]
    About - Apertus

    VendorSwiss AI InitiativeLast verified

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