German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks
A German AI consortium has released Soofi S, an open-source 30B parameter language model trained on Deutsche Telekom's AI cloud, which outperforms other open models in benchmarks for German, English, and programming tasks. The model uses a resource-efficient hybrid architecture, and its developers are pushing back against criticisms of 'overtraining' based on traditional scaling laws.
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This release marks a significant advancement in open-source AI, particularly for non-English languages, and challenges existing paradigms for AI model development and scaling, potentially influencing future research and applications.
Update AI research Copy the url to clipboard Share this article Go to comment section German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German Jonathan Kemper View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Jul 13, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points A German research consortium has released the open-source language model Soofi S, which was trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's AI cloud infrastructure. The model uses a resource-efficient hybrid architecture that activates only 3.2 of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, keeping processing speed constant even with very long inputs. With a strong focus on German training data, Soofi S outperforms other fully open models, such as Olmo 3 32B and Apertus 70B, in benchmarks for German, English, and programming tasks. Ask about this article… Search Update – Jul 15, 2026 Statement on the allegation of overtraining added Update from July 15, 2026:
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