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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78B-parameter open-weight LLM for German and English

Aleph Alpha, a German AI company, released Kolibri on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, with weights published on Hugging Face. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 78.1 billion total parameters but only 3.46 billion active per token, trained from scratch on 768 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across data centers in Germany and Finland on roughly 24 trillion tokens, over a fifth of them German.

tej.as · 2026-10-03

AI startup releases Kolibri, an open-weight 'sovereign' language model

A new open-weight AI model called Kolibri has been released, positioned as a 'sovereign' alternative to existing large language models. The release includes benchmark comparisons against models such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B, Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B and Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B, with metrics focused on non-hallucination rates and grounding accuracy when source documents lack answers.

aleph-alpha.com · 2026-10-03