Swiss universities to release multilingual AI programme

This summer researchers at Swiss universities will make available a large language model (LLM), an AI programme trained on vast amounts of data, developed on public infrastructure. A defining feature of the model is its multilingual fluency in over 1,500 languages, reports Swiss Info.

Trained on the ‘Alps’ supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence, its developers said on Wednesday.

This week in Geneva, around 50 international organisations working for open-source LLMs and trustworthy AI came together at the first International Open-Source LLM Builders Summit. Organised by the AI centres at Switzerland’s federal institutes of technology in Lausanne (EFPL) and Zurich (ETH Zurich), the two institutions see the event as an important milestone in the construction of a collaborative international ecosystem around open and transparent models.
Full report on the Swiss Info site