Switzerland Launches Transparent Chatgpt Alternative

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Switzerland has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) race with the launch of a national Large Language Model (LLM) to provide an alternative to the likes of ChatGPT, Llama and DeepSeek. This content was published on September 2, 2025 - 10:00 5 minutes

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Designed by leading Swiss universities, the Apertus LLM is comparable to Meta's Llama 3 model from 2024. Since then, Meta and other rivals have produced more advanced versions.

But the Swiss team insist they are not trying to compete with the multi-billion dollar budgets of United States trailblazers. They are happy to sacrifice the latest frills aimed at general users in favour of a safer and more accessible AI system for scientific researchers and commerce.

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“We aim to provide a blueprint for how a trustworthy, sovereign and inclusive AI model can be developed,” said Martin Jaggi, professor of machine learning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne EPFL.

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The frenetic pace of AI innovation since the public release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022 has seen leading companies, such as Anthropic, release a spate of LLMs every year. Outside the US, China's DeepSeek and Qwen platforms and models from France's Mistral have deepened the pool of options for AI users.

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