Hack Apertus is calling for ambitious hackers to participate in the Basel Hackathon on 4-5 December 2026.
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Hack Apertus
Accelerating Apertus adoption by mobilising builders to create open-source, sovereign blueprints for embedded solutions.
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- Events Services
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- Zurich, CH
- Company size
- 2โ10 employees
About Hack Apertus
Welcome to Hack Apertus, an open-source hackathon movement built around Apertus, the fully open large language model. Hack Apertus is a three-stage hackathon series with an Online Hackathon and six On-site Hackathons in Swiss cities, running from October 2026 until May 2027. Interdisciplinary teams build on Apertus to create reusable blueprints deployable air-gapped, on-premise, or on sovereign cloud infrastructure. You can join any hack, or all of them. Thanks for joining and contributing your time and expertise. ยท Phase 1: 2-week Online Hackathon: 1.10.-16.10.2026 ยท Phase 2: On-site Hackathons Q4 2026/Q2 2027 ยท Phase 3: Grand finals: 14.05.2027 Lead organisation: aiLights Association Co-Initiators: aiLights Association, Artifact, Swiss Engineering STV If you want to participate or contribute, please send a message here or visit our website and sign-up. Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/hack-apertus
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Hack Apertus Zurich hosted a booth at the UZH.ai Students booth at the AI Startup Center/TECHNOPARK Zรผrich on 27/28.11.26.
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Hack Apertus received support from supporting partners including Hasler Stiftung, digitalswitzerland, Gebert Rรผf Stiftung, UBS, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, AI Bridge, b2venture, รbermorgen Ventures, Novu Campus, and bb trading werbeartikel ag.
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