German researchers release open-source AI model Soofi S | Cybernews

German consortium Soofi released Soofi S, an open-source AI model ranked top among tested open-source benchmarks, using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture that activates only 3 billion of 30 billion parameters per token, reducing compute requirements whilst maintaining performance in English, German, coding, maths, and regional knowledge. If you're building AI applications on proprietary models, you now have a fully open alternative that costs less to run and matches paid competitors on benchmarks. The efficiency win—activating only 10% of parameters—means you can deploy at scale on cheaper hardware, which changes your unit economics.