News from Helvetra
Notes from Swiss AI events, Apertus releases, and what's shaping the model behind every Helvetra translation.
Helvetra moves to Apertus 1.5: what changes, and what we're watching
Apertus 1.5 is live on Infomaniak and Helvetra now runs it. What improves for your translations, what we leave switched off, and an honest first look at Swiss German, dialect output that works, auto-detection that still does not.
Infomaniak becomes a foundation: what it means for Helvetra
Why every layer of Helvetra, the website, the backend, and the Apertus translation model, runs on Infomaniak, and what changed when the company handed voting control to a Swiss public-interest foundation in May 2026.
Helvetra at Swiss Startup Days 2026: open source as the only strategy
Notes from the fireside chat on the AI Stage in Bern, where the Apertus team brought Helvetra along. Open source as the only credible strategy for a small Swiss product, why we keep no record of what you type, and the honest state of Swiss German on Apertus today.
Apertus at Uphill Conf 2026: what it means for Helvetra
Notes from Imanol Schlag's keynote on the fully-open Swiss AI model behind Helvetra. Why a single PhD student took Apertus from zero to ~40% Swiss German performance in a day, and why every Apertus release from here on directly upgrades the translations you get from us.