Universities -- & national scholarly funders more generally -- have been resistant to developing #open, transparent #LLMs that deliver sovereign AI, seeing this as a private gig for big tech only. Pleased therefore to see EPFL, ETH #Zurich, & the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) release a publicly developed, fully open #LLM.
"Fully open models enable high-trust applications and are necessary for advancing research about the risks and opportunities of #AI".