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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78B parameter open-weight model for sovereign use

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Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a new open-weight, sovereign language model designed for mission-critical applications in German-speaking regions. This Mixture-of-Experts model features 78 billion total parameters with 3 billion active, supports up to 1 million token context lengths, and is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. Kolibri was developed using a robust training pipeline and has been specialized for German language, reasoning, math, and agentic behavior, offering optimized performance and cost-efficiency for enterprise and government use cases. AI

IMPACT Offers a specialized, open-weight model for sovereign use cases, potentially increasing adoption in regulated German-speaking markets.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78B parameter open-weight model for sovereign use

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  1. Lobsters — AI tag TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · aleph-alpha.com via miro ·

    Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

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