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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks
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The German research consortium has released Soofi S, an open-source language model with 30 billion parameters, trained on Deutsche Telekom's AI cloud infrastructure. The model features a hybrid architecture that activates only 3.2 of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, maintaining processing speed with long inputs and excelling in both English and German benchmarks.
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- Praise: Great to see more competition in this space, and especially from Europe, but it’s disappointing the benchmarks don’t include the current best comparable models.
- Praise: It's refreshing to see model training powered entirely by renewable energy — a step towards a sustainable AI future!
- Concern: It tops benchmarks because it uses them in its training data — that's a major red flag for credibility.
- Concern: Disappointing. Sounds like Volkswagen 2.0 — concerns about ethical practices are looming large.
- Concern: The benchmarks are outdated, showing results against models that have been surpassed — feels like a missed opportunity.