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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

德国AI协会发布开源模型Soofi S,在英语和德语基准测试中领先

German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

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A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, keeping throughput steady even at very long contexts. With a training dataset deliberately weighted toward German, Soofi S tops all fully open competitors on both German and English benchmarks.

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