The Swiss AI Initiative, formed in December 2023 as a partnership between ETH AI Center and EPFL AI Center, secured 10 million GPU hours on the Alps supercomputer and a 20 million CHF grant. Coordinating 800+ researchers across 10+ Swiss institutions, it focuses on developing transparent, open-source AI models accessible to Swiss SMEs and startups, representing the world's largest open science effort for AI foundation models.
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Switzerland launches a 20M CHF open-science AI initiative coordinating 800+ researchers to develop transparent, open-source foundation models accessible to startups—claiming the world's largest open-science effort in AI with 10M GPU hours on the Alps supercomputer.
Monday, April 20, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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