I need a local model without espionage, which can translate text into several languages and not heat up my hardware too much, since computers are getting more expensive now.

  • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I do wonder if this is any good:

    Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

    Trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages – 40% of the data is non-English – Apertus includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs, such as Swiss German, Romansh, and many others.

    “Apertus is built for the public good. It stands among the few fully open LLMs at this scale and is the first of its kind to embody multilingualism, transparency, and compliance as foundational design principles,” says Imanol Schlag, technical lead of the LLM project and Research Scientist at ETH Zurich.

    https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/09/press-release-apertus-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-model.html

    It’s available in LM Studio:

    I mainly translate from Ukranian and French and for that I find any Mistral model is good enough