Bring your own idea and build a working Apertus prototype that tackles a problem you care about — any domain, any use case. The project must be new, started within the hackathon period.
Submissions must use the Apertus model family. For Track 2 this means that submitted solutions must be built with Apertus. Other open-weights models can be used to support development, e.g. as automatic judges during evaluation. Their role must be clearly described in the submission report.
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Check our resources & tools page for detailed information: https://hackapertus.notion.site/resources-tools
| Specific AI models | Apertus v1.5 — 8B or 70B |
|---|---|
| Model sources | huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B |
| huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B | |
| Target architecture (mandatory) | Whatever you build in Track 2B must be deployable in one of these three architectures: |
a) On-premise — on the organisation's own infrastructure, under its own administration. b) Air-gapped — with no external network connection at runtime. c) Sovereign Swiss cloud — on a cloud platform operated in Switzerland, under Swiss jurisdiction, with Swiss data residency. |
Submissions are not handled in Devpost.
Submit on our website only: http://hackapertus.ch/online-hack/submissions
Github repo template: https://github.com/HackApertus/project-template
The submission must:
make run from the root of the projecttrack_2b/ challenge directory. Delete the other track challenge directories.track_2b/ as it is: don't rename it or move its files.