German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

throwa356262

I think this news is more about the infrastructure than the model. Either way, happy to see two open models from outside the us-cn duopoly in the same week.

k__

"Fully open source model" with "Long-term, license-free availability for industry" Nice trick to be not comparable with most other LLMs on the market, open weight or proprietary. But I think, that's the right way.

mft_

Great to see more competition in this space, and especially from Europe, but... it's a shame when the benchmarks don't include the current best comparable models. They shows results against Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 3, but Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 have been available for ~three months.

sajithdilshan

Better late than never. Germans have entered the chat

jbellis

It tops benchmarks because it uses them in its training data. https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2077425801633427919

beklein

Some other (as in better) sources I found: - https://huggingface.co/spaces/Soofi-Project/Pretraining-Tech... - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.09424

doobiedowner

How can we get these things to fight each other for sport? Real battle bots

skeledrew

> the facility runs entirely on renewable energy, is cooled with water from the Eisbach canal, and feeds waste heat into the surrounding Tucherpark neighborhood. That's it right there. Show the others how it's done. Can see going forward most model training being done in winter, making for a proper resource recycling ecosystem.

frb

I wanted to try it today. Had to request access on huggingface, which was still not answered after a day. Given all the Inkling and Kimi announcements, this atm just feels like too little too late to be taken seriously. That said, it’s their first release and I hope they do catch up fast.