Why publish intermediate checkpoints?
Intermediate checkpoints can show how a model changes during training and give researchers more points to inspect or compare than a final weight file alone. They do not automatically prove that training data or every decision is fully transparent, but they make parts of the development path easier to examine.
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Apertus 1.5 Puts More of the AI Recipe in Public ViewApertus 1.5 documents open multimodal models and intermediate checkpoints, while its release notes clarify when weights actually appeared.
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