One year on, has Swiss AI model Apertus lived up to the hype?

One year after its launch, Switzerland’s fully open AI model has passed four million downloads and found real-world uses. Now on version 1.5, Apertus is closing the gap with its rivals, but weaknesses on key tasks still make it difficult for the Swiss model to compete in the fast-moving AI race. The news arrived with much fanfare: Switzerland finally had its own fully open, transparent and multilingual artificial intelligence (AI) model, designed with data protection rules and the European AI…