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  • 1.  Switzerland to launch green energy free GPT-4 Rival!

    Posted 29-07-2025 10:02

    This sounds like a really great news! Do you think this is replicable all over in Europe and what can this mean for investing/finance?

    Read more here

    In brief

    • In late summer 2025, a publicly developed large language model (LLM) will be released - co-created by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
    • This LLM will be fully open: This openness is designed to support broad adoption and foster innovation across science, society, and industry. 
    • A distinctive feature of the model is its multilingual capability in over 1,000 languages.

    The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible, supporting adoption across science, government, education, and the private sector. This approach is designed to foster both innovation and accountability.

    A distinctive feature of the model is its capability in over 1000 languages

    Read more here

    I saw claims on LinkedIn that it is powered by green energy - but couldn't find any reference or articles or news on this on the internet so far



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    Aya Pariy
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  • 2.  RE: Switzerland to launch green energy free GPT-4 Rival!

    Posted 04-09-2025 12:33
    Edited by Carlos Salas 04-09-2025 12:34

    This source claims it's carbon-neutral:
    "Built on Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)'s carbon-neutral Alps cluster, 10,000 Nvidia Grace‑Hopper superchips delivering over 40 exaflops in FP8 mode, it combines scale with sustainability absent in private cloud training."

    There's  still no benchmark data released  on standardized tasks such as reasoning (ARC-AGI), knowledge (MMLU), coding, or translation.That said, several sources describe Apertus as comparable to Meta's LLaMA 3 (2024) model in scale and ambition-but detailed performance metrics are not available yet.

    Feel free anybody to share benchmark data when released.

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    Carlos Salas
    Portfolio Manager & Freelance Investment Research Consultant
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  • 3.  RE: Switzerland to launch green energy free GPT-4 Rival!

    Posted 04-09-2025 18:06

    Thanks Aya, all relevant info.

    Just for context, on the back of the comments from Carlos, below is a quick snapshot of current frontier model intelligence by AI Lab (Q2 2025) which I have posted before, as well. 

    Frontier AI Models
    Also, regarding carbon-neutral energy consumption, it is highly unlikely for this example to be replicable accross countries since the primary energy sources in Switzerland are hydropower plants and nuclear power plants (see link below).
    Energy in Switzerland
    Swiss energy sources
    Hope this is helpful.
    -Todor


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    Todor Kostov
    Director
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