ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

Re:ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public ... by oytis on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:08PM (#44536348)

The press release talks a lot about how it was done, but very little about how capabilities compare to other open models.

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Re:ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public ... by pantalaimon on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:15PM (#44536398)

It's a university, teaching the 'how it's done' is kind of the point

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Re:ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public ... by EA-3167 on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:12PM (#44536825)

Sure, but usually you teach something that is inherently useful, or can be applied to some sort of useful endeavor. In this case I think it's fair to ask what the collision of two bubbles really achieves, or if it's just a useful teaching model, what it can be applied to.

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Re:ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public ... by joot82 on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:32PM (#44536523)

The model will be released in two sizes — 8 billion and 70 billion parameters [...]. The 70B version will rank among the most powerful fully open models worldwide. [...] In late summer, the LLM will be released under the Apache 2.0 License.

We'll find out in September if it's true?

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Re:ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public ... by k__ on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:19PM (#44536885)

I hope DeepSeek R2, but I fear Llama 4.

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Re:ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public ... by oytis on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:32PM (#44536967)

Yeah, I was thinking more of a table with benchmark results

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