GERMAN CONSORTIUM LAUNCHES SOOFI S, BILINGUAL 30B MODEL
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A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained on Deutsche Telekom's Munich cloud infrastructure. The model outperforms fully open competitors on both German and English benchmarks.
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