Swiss AI

Apertus 8B

Tool calling

Fully open 8B multilingual LLM supporting 1800+ languages with 65K context. Trained on compliant open data. Apache 2.0, EU AI Act compliant.

Context
66K
Released
1y ago
Parameters
8B

Sources:models.dev

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Specifications

Developer
Swiss AI
Model family
—
Type
Language model
Predecessor
—
Successor
—
Released
September 2, 2025
Model ID
swiss-ai/apertus-8b
Openness
Open weights
License
Apache-2.0
Parameters
8B
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Modality
text->text
Max output tokens
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09
Hugging Face
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Source freshness
Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC
Additional source evidence
Source model
swiss-ai/apertus-8b
Last updated
2025-09-02
Knowledge cutoff
2025-09
Model context
66K
Model output limit
8K
Open weights
Yes
File attachments
No
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Temperature control
Yes

Downloadable weights

Official references

Complete source record (JSON)
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  ]
}

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