Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
Summary
Apertus announces a fully open foundation model for sovereign AI, including open weights, data, and alignment principles, built to comply with the EU AI Act and support scalability with multilingual capabilities. The project highlights open science, a catalog of recent releases (Apertus Mini, ACL 2026 paper, Ticino translation use), and partnerships with EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS, and Swisscom.