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Aleph Alpha is Aleph Alpha — the Heidelberg-based German AI lab building sovereign European models. Its Kolibri (October 2026) is a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 3.46B active parameters and a 1M-token context, released under Apache 2.0.

Q: What is the latest news about Aleph Alpha?

As of today, there are 10 recent stories about Aleph Alpha. Recent headlines: Mistral Large 4 vs Kolibri vs Beam: Which Open-Weight LLM?; How Sovereign Is Kolibri?; Aleph Alpha’s Sovereign A.I. Model Kolibri Is No Match for the Open-Weight Leaders. Updated every 15 minutes.

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Aleph Alpha — the Heidelberg-based German AI lab building sovereign European models. Its Kolibri (October 2026) is a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 3.46B active parameters and a 1M-token context, released under Apache 2.0.

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Aleph Alpha is an AI company. Aleph Alpha — the Heidelberg-based German AI lab building sovereign European models. Its Kolibri (October 2026) is a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 3.46B active parameters and a 1M-token context, released under Apache 2.0. This page tracks 10 recent news stories about Aleph Alpha, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3.46B parameters per token. It has a 1M-token context and per-request reasoning effort,...

Marktechpost·Oct 4

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Mistral Large 4 vs Kolibri vs Beam: Which Open-Weight LLM?

by Aleksei Aleinikov — Mistral Large 4, Aleph Alpha Kolibri and Reflection Beam compared for self-hosting: release status, licenses, architecture, every…

Code Your Own Path·1d ago

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You can now try Aleph Alpha's Kolibri 78B for free online here.

Link: https://tesseracted.com/kolibri-1-chat/ Original post at /r/euainews

r/LocalLLaMA·Oct 5

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Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 · Hugging Face - 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context - Apache 2.0

From Aleph Alpha on 𝕏: https://x.com/Aleph__Alpha/status/2106306840657297814 Tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf

r/LocalLLaMA·Oct 3

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How Sovereign Is Kolibri?

Aleph Alpha’s German foundation model is strongly sovereign in production and deployment, but not across the full technological stack Abstract How sovereign is Kolibri? Substantially sovereign at the...

r/eutech·5d ago

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What is Kolibri? Why Germany’s New Open Model Was Trained to Say “I Don’t Know”

by Levent Bulusan — Aleph Alpha’s 78B open-weight model won’t win every leaderboard. It was built for the jobs where a confident wrong answer costs more.

Medium·Oct 5

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Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha

Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Lidl’s owner, Schwarz Group. With the blessing of their governments, the companies intend to offer a sovereign...

TechCrunch AI·Apr 25

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German lab Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri: a sovereign open-weight model,78B parameters, 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context.

Hard to keep up with all the releases, almost missed this one. Europe is behind but good to see some of these companies working on open models. Kolibri is a specialized language model built for...

r/singularity·Oct 5

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Aleph Alpha puts Kolibri's full weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0

Startup Fortune·Oct 3

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What is Aleph Alpha?

Aleph Alpha is Aleph Alpha — the Heidelberg-based German AI lab building sovereign European models. Its Kolibri (October 2026) is a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 3.46B active parameters and a 1M-token context, released under Apache 2.0.

What is Aleph Alpha's official website?

Aleph Alpha's official website is https://aleph-alpha.com.

What is the latest news about Aleph Alpha?

As of today, there are 10 recent stories about Aleph Alpha. Recent headlines include: Mistral Large 4 vs Kolibri vs Beam: Which Open-Weight LLM?; How Sovereign Is Kolibri?; Aleph Alpha’s Sovereign A.I. Model Kolibri Is No Match for the Open-Weight Leaders. Updated every 15 minutes.