German consortium releases open 30B AI model Soofi S, topping benchmarks

The German AI consortium LAION released Soofi S, a 30-billion-parameter open-source language model that outperforms competitors on both English and German benchmarks. The model is available under an open license for research and commercial use. Soofi S was trained on a mix of public datasets and achieves state-of-the-art results among open models of its size.