German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German
German consortium just released Soofi S 30B—and it's topping benchmarks in English AND German. Here's why that matters for European AI independence.
Why it matters
A new open 30B model with efficient hybrid architecture (MoE-style parameter activation) is challenging the dominance of US-trained models in multilingual benchmarks, signaling growing regional AI capability and potential shift in open-source model leadership.
The key facts
7 to knowSoofi S 30B-A3B released by German research consortium
31.6 billion parameters with hybrid architecture (activates only fraction per token)
Trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's Munich cloud infrastructure
Training dataset weighted toward German language
Tops all fully open competitors on German benchmarks
Tops all fully open competitors on English benchmarks
Efficient inference at long context windows
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The Decoderthe-decoder.com
Publisher excerpt: A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, keeping throughput steady…