Model · Language model
Apertus 8B
An 8B multilingual text model pretrained on 15T tokens of open data, released under Apache-2.0 with a 65,536-token context and an advisory usage policy.
- Developer
- Swiss AI Initiative
- Distribution
- Downloadable weights
- Artifact licensing
- Open-licensed artifacts
- License scope
- Reviewed release artifacts and mandatory terms; not an assessment of training code or training data openness.
- Licenses
- Apache License 2.0
- Boundary
- This record represents the swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-2509 base release of September 2025 at Hugging Face commit 3162c99675aa588097cecd4a24b9aa1f712af477. The 70B sibling, the Instruct fine-tune, the 1.5 generation, quantizations, and community fine-tunes remain separate boundaries.
Risk statements
Not yet examined.
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