German consortium releases open 30B model Soofi S

A German research consortium released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open-weight language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. It uses a hybrid architecture activating only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per token and tops other fully open models on both German and English benchmarks.

Why it matters: A notable non-US, non-Chinese entrant to the open-weight model race, trained on European infrastructure.