🔥Switzerland Drops Its Own ChatGPT

The global LLM race is expanding.

Switzerland has unveiled Apertus — the first fully open multilingual large language model built at scale. Trained on carbon-neutral supercomputers, it was developed to comply with the transparency and data standards of the EU AI Act.

Higgsfield AI dropped Draw-to-Edit, a new tool that makes photo and video editing as simple as doodling.

Amazon is making shopping frictionless with Lens Live, an AI-powered camera tool that turns whatever you see into something you can instantly buy. And OpenAI just unveiled a plan to build an AI hiring platform to take on LinkedIn.

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Switzerland

The World’s First Fully Open Multilingual LLM

Switzerland has unveiled Apertus, its first large-scale, open-source language model — trained on carbon-neutral supercomputers and designed to meet Swiss data protection laws and the EU AI Act. With the U.S. backed by OpenAI, France with Mistral, and China with Baidu, Switzerland now joins the race for sovereign AI. Unlike its commercial rivals, Apertus is built around transparency, sustainability, and trust — values often overlooked in the global AI push.

🔓 Why It Stands Apart

• Open source all the way: full transparency through Hugging Face—no hidden datasets or secret weights.

• Trained on 15 trillion tokens across 1,800+ languages and dialects (including Swiss German and Romansh) using Switzerland’s carbon-neutral supercomputing infrastructure.

• Designed with ethics in mind: avoids data scraped from opt-out sites and strictly uses public sources to comply with European regulations.

⚙️ How Apertus Works

• Choose Your Model Size → Download the lightweight 8B model for smaller projects, or the full 70B version for enterprise and research.

• Deploy Anywhere → Run Apertus on your own infrastructure or access it via Swisscom’s public inference utility.

• Experiment Seamlessly → Use Apertus Lens, a hosted interface for testing and customization.

• Build Trust-Centric Apps → Ideal for banks, governments, and enterprises requiring transparency and compliance.

• Global Developer Utility → With multilingual support, developers worldwide can create applications that reflect local dialects and cultural contexts.

💡 Why It Matters: Apertus represents more than a model—it’s public AI infrastructure. By prioritizing transparency, sustainability, and privacy, Switzerland is showing a path other nations may follow. In a world where AI often hides behind corporate walls, Apertus sets a new bar: fully open, ethically trained, globally inclusive, and environmentally conscious.

👉 Explore Apertus on Hugging Face

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Higgsfield’s AI Turns Sketches Into Studio-Grade Edits

Higgsfield just dropped Draw-to-Edit, and it might be the most natural way yet to create with AI. Forget Photoshop layers, endless prompts, or hours of video editing. With Draw-to-Edit, you can transform any image or video simply by drawing, annotating, and dropping in references. The AI handles the rest — blending objects, changing poses, swapping backgrounds — like a creative partner who instantly understands your intent.

🎨 New Tricks for Creators

• Draw arrows, circles, or notes directly onto an image or video to guide edits

• Upload up to 8 reference images — people, products, props

• Change poses by providing a simple reference frame (e.g., standing → waving)

• Multi-image workflows let you layer edits for more complex scenes

• Full video support: swap objects, add elements, or clean up scenes just as easily as with photos

🖌️ How You Can Use It

• Lifestyle → Turn a backyard into a tropical paradise

• Fashion → Change outfits, swap colors, or add accessories instantly

• Product placement → Drop your brand into influencer shots with zero effort

• Creative remix → Add pets, celebrities, or surreal details into everyday scenes

• Video swaps → Replace cans with branded bottles, clean up footage, or add props in seconds

Draw-to-Edit makes visual editing as simple as doodling. By removing prompts and technical workflows, Higgsfield is pushing editing into a new era — one where you can collaborate with AI visually, in real time, and generate production-ready content in minutes instead of hours. For creators, marketers, and brands, this means faster turnarounds, more flexibility, and pro-level control without pro-level tools.

🎬 Start editing now → https://higgsfield.ai

Amazon

Amazon’s Lens Live: Turn Your Camera Into a Storefront

Amazon just unveiled Lens Live, a new AI-powered shopping feature that lets you point your phone’s camera at the real world and instantly shop what you see. No snapshots, no barcodes — just live, continuous visual search. It’s powered by Amazon’s AI assistant Rufus and plugged directly into the company’s massive catalog, making spontaneous discovery smoother than ever.

🆕 What’s New

• Live camera mode — scan your surroundings in real time, results show up as you pan

• AI + Rufus integration — product recaps, related Q&As, and suggested prompts right in-view

• One-tap shopping — add to cart or wishlist without leaving the live camera

• Massive rollout — available to tens of millions of iOS users in the U.S. starting now

🛠 What You Can Use It For

• Spot a friend’s shoes → find the exact model or cheaper alternatives

• Scan a home appliance → compare parts, accessories, or upgrades

• Browse decor in a café → instantly shop similar items for your place

• Look at groceries, beauty products, or gadgets → buy in seconds

Lens Live blurs the line between the real world and Amazon’s marketplace. For shoppers, it’s a frictionless bridge from discovery to purchase. For Amazon, it’s a lock-in strategy: making its app the fastest, stickiest, most intuitive shopping tool on your phone — and laying the groundwork for AR-powered retail in the near future.

👉Start shopping smarter → learn how to use Amazon Lens

OpenAI

OpenAI’s AI hiring platform

OpenAI just unveiled an AI-powered hiring platform set to launch in mid-2026, directly challenging LinkedIn. The service will use OpenAI’s models to intelligently match candidates with employers, while offering certification programs through OpenAI Academy to validate AI fluency in areas like prompt engineering and applied AI. Special support tiers will target small businesses and local governments, broadening access beyond enterprise hiring.

This marks a major step for OpenAI into professional services, pairing job matching with training and credentialing to reshape how AI talent is discovered and hired. For job seekers, it means verified skills and smarter recommendations. For employers, it promises curated shortlists and reduced friction in recruiting. And with Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest backer, also owning LinkedIn, the move underscores both the ambition and tension in OpenAI’s expansion.

👉 Read the full announcement

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