Germany Releases Open Source 30B Model Soofi S

The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-13

A German AI consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open-source language model:

• The model scale is about 31.6B parameters, utilizing an efficient hybrid architecture that only activates a fraction of the parameters per token.
• Training was completed entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich.
• The dataset intentionally increased the proportion of German content, resulting in outstanding performance on German tasks.
• The article claims it outperforms all fully open-source competitors on both English and German benchmarks.

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