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title: swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-base
url: https://recentmodel.com/models/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-base/
status: archived
published: 2026-09-23T07:09:05Z
updated: 2026-10-23T11:26:00Z
source: https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-base
---

# swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-base

Apertus 1.5 is a family of 8B and 70B fully open, multilingual, and multimodal models from the Swiss AI Initiative, trained only on openly available data and released with open weights, open data, and open training documentation. 72B params. License: apache-2.0.


- **Org:** swiss-ai
- **Released:** 2026-09-23
- **Status:** archived
- **License:** apache-2.0 (permissive)
- **Parameters:** 71.9B
- **Task:** image-text-to-text · vision
- **Signal:** 3 HF likes · 664 downloads
- **Weights:** gated
- **Archived:** 2026-10-23 (aged out (older than 30 days); stats as last seen)

## Runs on

mixed: real files + estimate; sizing calculation, not tested.

- Q4 ~50.3 GB (estimated): Mac 96GB, CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow)
- Q8 ~83.5 GB (estimated): 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow)
- FP16 ~151.4 GB: 2× DGX Spark (256GB), Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)

## Links

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-base)