Open LLM Project Apertus Secures $1M Funding, Hires AI Safety Engineers
maksym_andr · x · 2026-08-13
The open-source LLM project Apertus has received $1M in funding from Coefficiency to support its work on "model raising"—aligning LLMs from the very first pretraining token.
The grant will fund 3 AI Safety Research Engineer positions at EPFL. Co-hosted by SwissAI, MLO, and dlab, these engineers will contribute directly to Apertus, one of the world's largest fully open-source LLM efforts, which is being trained on over 10,000 GPUs.
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