Model Detail
Apertus-v1.5-8B
—Apertus-v1.5-8B is a multimodal model with 8B parameters released by swiss-ai. The model is registered under the image-text-to-text pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.
Apertus-v1.5-8B ships with 8B parameters. Total weight footprint is approximately 8.9 GB, which is the relevant figure when planning local-inference VRAM. The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.
Apertus-v1.5-8B is best fit for mixed text-and-image reasoning tasks such as document understanding. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
Apertus 1.5 Release Notes
Apertus LLM Family Expansion via Distillation and Quantization
arXiv:2605.29128v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The wide adoption of LLMs has led to their use in great variety of applications and scenarios, such as chatbot assistants and data annotation, creating the need for the models to satisfy certain budget and hardware constraints. This has led to the
