{"slug": "german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in", "title": "German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German", "summary": "A German research consortium released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses a hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, topping all fully open competitors on both German and English benchmarks.", "body_md": "# German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German\n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com)\n\nA German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open [language model](/glossary/language-model) trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per [token](/glossary/token), keeping throughput steady even at very long contexts. With a [training](/glossary/training) dataset deliberately weighted toward German, Soofi S tops all fully open competitors on both German and English benchmarks.\n\nThe article [German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German](https://the-decoder.com/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in-both-english-and-german/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[Decoder](/glossary/decoder)\n\nThe part of a neural network that generates output from an internal representation.\n\n[Language Model](/glossary/language-model)\n\nAn AI model that understands and generates human language.\n\n[Token](/glossary/token)\n\nThe basic unit of text that language models work with.\n\n[Training](/glossary/training)\n\nThe process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-rmaa", "published_at": "2026-07-13 11:41:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 11:50:30.614229+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Deutsche Telekom", "Soofi S 30B-A3B"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in.jsonld"}}