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Apertus 1.5 released: Open multimodal reasoning models with 262K context

Apertus 1.5, a new series of open multimodal reasoning models, has been released, extending the Apertus family beyond text to include image and audio understanding. These models feature a significantly increased context window of 262,144 tokens and incorporate supervised fine-tuning, long-context fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning. The 8B model demonstrates leading performance among open models in its class for knowledge and instruction following, and is competitive in multimodal tasks, particularly document understanding and speech recognition. AI

IMPACT Extends open-source multimodal reasoning capabilities and sets new benchmarks for instruction following and context window length.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing the release of an open multimodal reasoning model. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Apertus 1.5 released: Open multimodal reasoning models with 262K context

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Apertus 1.5: From Open Text Models to Open Multimodal Reasoners

    Language models are becoming infrastructure, and infrastructure built in the open, by public institutions, on documented data, is the alternative to dependence on a few providers; Apertus shows this is viable at scale. Apertus 1.5 extends the fully open Apertus family from text t…