Note that the main models are KYC gated [^euros] but also licensed under Apache 2.0, so ungated models are distributed by the community, see for example [8B-ungated]( https://huggingface.co/adamo1139/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509-ungated)

![](https://m.stacker.news/108899)

[^euros]: This shit is totally getting out of hand. If you're in the EU or CH, remember that between a Russian Invasion and a Totalitarian Compliance Regime, the latter is already there and fucking you up. 

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Swiss-made, robots.txt compliant open-source LLMs

We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingual representation. Unlike many prior models that release weights without reproducible data pipelines or regard for content-owner rights, Apertus models are pretrained exclusively on openly available data, retroactively respecting robots.txt exclusions and filtering for non-permissive, toxic, and personally identifiable content.

https://huggingface.co/collections/swiss-ai/apertus-llm-68b699e65415c231ace3b059

***Swiss-made, robots.txt compliant open-source LLMs***

> We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingual representation. Unlike many prior models that release weights without reproducible data pipelines or regard for content-owner rights, Apertus models are pretrained exclusively on openly available data, retroactively respecting robots.txt exclusions and filtering for non-permissive, toxic, and personally identifiable content.

Models: https://huggingface.co/collections/swiss-ai/apertus-llm-68b699e65415c231ace3b059

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Here we go!