'This year' on the homepage, no date on the release page. Which is current?

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by M-vdBerg - opened

Great work on Soofi-S-Base, the technical report and public training/eval code are genuinely valuable.

But the release messaging doesn't add up. The soofi.info homepage says the open-source release is planned "this year," while the linked detail page ("Mehr erfahren") already softens that to "later in the project," timeline "to be announced."

The beta is also closed to new applicants, and the HF checkpoints remain gated closed-beta previews under a still-unfinished license.

For comparison, Switzerland's Apertus (ETH/EPFL) went from announcement to a fully open, Apache-2.0, publicly accessible release. A proof this is achievable, not a structural constraint of sovereign AI projects.

Could you commit to something firmer than "this year"? A target month/quarter, or the concrete milestones still outstanding (licensing, safety sign-off, trial results)? I'm holding off on a proper evaluation until this is settled, so even a tentative update would help a lot.

Thanks for the work so far, looking forward to something concrete.

Best,
Michael

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