Data 2026-07

Sovereign AI

Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.

Sovereign programme record · Switzerland · 2024

Switzerland: Alps Supercomputer + Swiss AI Initiative: $113M announced · 100.0% of the government-only floor disbursed

Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.

Announced~$113M
Government-only floor$113M
Committed~$136M
Disbursed~$113M

The reconciliation. Four figures on one dollar scale, each bar a share of the largest. The reality ratio above divides disbursed by the government-only floor ($113M), and the field it divides by is stated so the division is reproducible. A hatched track is an absent figure carried with its reason — a government that does not publish disbursement is a finding, not a zero. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Pipeline stage: Deployed (primary-verified evidence) — 10,000 accelerators tracked; 100% of announced disbursed. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.

Hardware on record

Model	Count	Status	Owner
NVIDIA Grace Hopper GH200	10,000	operational	CSCS (government/ETH Domain)

Empanelled partners · 6

Partner	GPUs	Model	Stage	Award
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)	10,752	NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip	commissioned	Primary source · 2024-09-14
ETH Zurich	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2023-12-01
EPFL	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2023-12-01
Hewlett Packard Enterprise	—	—	awarded	Primary source · 2024-09-14
Paul Scherrer Institute	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-09-14
MeteoSwiss	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-09-14

External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: high · TSMC fabrication: high · US technology: high · BIS jurisdiction reach: low. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.

Named partners: CSCS, ETH Zurich, EPFL, HPE, NVIDIA.

Alps operational, 434.9 PFLOPS peak, #7 TOP500. Over 10,000 GH200 chips. 10 MW power. CHF 37M/year operating budget. Apertus open LLM in development.

What this record flags about itself · 4

CHF 100M in capital, the inauguration of Alps on 14 September 2024, and its #7 TOP500 placement in November 2024 are all verified.
Alps powered by 100% hydropower
Apertus LLM under development on Alps
The committed figure is derived: CHF 100M of Alps capital plus CHF 20M for the Swiss AI Initiative gives CHF 120M, converted at 1.13 CHF/USD (March 2026) for $135.6M. Disbursed covers Alps alone at CHF 100M, or $113M. The rate is carried from this record's underlying research file rather than from a dated FX source, and both figures are recorded as estimates.

The evidence trail

8 cited sources

Alps inauguration announcement (CSCS) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
Alps inauguration, investment details — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
CSCS Alps technical specifications — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
CHF 100M capital, CHF 37M operating budget — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
Swiss AI Initiative launch — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
Apertus LLM details — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
DC capacity target: main facility in Lugano; CSCS extending Alps infrastructure across Switzerland — Research database · no accessed date on record
CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre): operator — Primary source · no accessed date on record

Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.