# German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German > Source: > Published: 2026-07-13 11:41:01+00:00 # German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com) A 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. The 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). Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI. ## Key Terms Explained [Decoder](/glossary/decoder) The part of a neural network that generates output from an internal representation. [Language Model](/glossary/language-model) An AI model that understands and generates human language. [Token](/glossary/token) The basic unit of text that language models work with. [Training](/glossary/training) The process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.