2023, but deadlines less than a month ago? Seems to be been updated continiously so (2023) doesn't really fit here.
Has anything noteworthy come from this initiative? I have not heard of anything yet.
(2023) Little said at the time (4 points, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38529956
Related 2023 discussion (22 comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38523736>
Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai. They've published both the base and the instruct sft models. Very cool that projects like this exist.
https://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/