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Accountability

Sovereignty test

Four questions about sovereign AI, for any model you want to run yourself. Here we answer them for Walnoot 8B.

Model
Walnoot 8B Instruct 1.0
Licence
Apache 2.0
A walnut clamped between the jaws of a cast iron bench vice, on a wooden workbench.

The test

How sovereign is Walnoot 8B?

  1. May you download the weights and keep them?

    Passed

    Yes. Apache 2.0, permanent, including commercial use. No registration, no revocable licence.

    What the licence covers

  2. Do you know what it was trained on?

    Passed

    Yes, for our layer. Documented per source, with the legal basis and the processing steps included. The layer underneath is Apertus. That documentation belongs to the Swiss AI Initiative and sits with them.

    Read the data provenance

  3. Can you redo the training and the evaluation?

    Passed

    Yes, for the evaluation. The harness version is pinned and the command is on the site. You can trace the training through the recipe, but you cannot redo it exactly, because the instruction examples and the post-training data are not public.

    Recompute every score

  4. Under which law did the training run?

    European law for the instruction training, the post-training and the measurements. Those ran on MareNostrum5 in Barcelona, the European public supercomputer, via EuroHPC. Where you run the model is then up to you.

    How to run it yourself

Further in the dossier

Where is the evidence?