Chatgpt, Meta Ai, Deepseek, Claude or even Gemini of Google will soon have a new very particular competitor in front of them: a 100 % Swiss language model, developed by the EPFL [l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne] and EPFZ [l’École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich].
Wednesday [16 juillet]the two institutions have delivered details on the progress of their major artificial intelligence project [IA]. In a few weeks, their model will be launched on the market, offering an alternative of choice to Internet users, developers, businesses or public institutions. Here is the essential to know with the expertise of Martin Jaggi, from the IA center of the EPFL.
Why create a language model?
Today there are dozens or even hundreds of language models on the market, developed above all by American or Chinese giants in the sector. Why launch a new Swiss model? “The vast majority of these models are for commercial purposes, they were often designed in secret by the tech giants, we know very few things about them, for example the data on which they have been trained, Repand. All this generates risks for users. It is also very important to us to offer a completely open model, which