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Soofi Consortium Unveils New AI Model
Soofi Consortium releases Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open hybrid AI model supporting English and German, achieving high benchmark scores.
Published Jul 16, 2026, 2:19 AMUpdated Jul 16, 2026, 2:19 AM
What happened
The Soofi Consortium, coordinated by KI Bundesverband, released the open hybrid Mamba-Transformer model Soofi S 30B-A3B for English and German, trained on Deutsche Telekom's Industrial AI Cloud.
Why it matters
Soofi S 30B-A3B exhibits strong performance in language benchmarks, providing robust multilingual capabilities and advancing AI language model development.
Who is affected
Tech leaders and researchers focusing on multilingual AI language models, specifically for English and German, will find the Soofi S 30B-A3B significant.
Risks / uncertainty
Although promising, Soofi S 30B-A3B's performance in real-world applications remains to be fully validated, and its open weights are gated by a preview.