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Soofi S

A sovereign German-English open foundation-model family with 32B preview checkpoints.

At a glance:

First seen:2026-07-16

Last seen:2026-07-16

Times seen:1

Website:huggingface.co

The short version

A sovereign German-English open foundation-model family with 32B preview checkpoints.

Why it caught our attention

A concrete European open-model release worth watching despite unresolved benchmark-comparison questions.

Where it surfaced on Hacker News

2026-07-16

Editorial paraphrase

HN commenters linked the official Hugging Face project and challenged its benchmark baselines and possible contamination.

German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks