Aleph Alpha Ships Kolibri-1, a 78B Apache-Licensed Model for European Sovereign AI

The German lab released a 78B-parameter open-weight model with German/English reasoning and tool use under Apache 2.0 — production-ready sovereign AI amid US-China tensions.

Europe's sovereign AI push produced something concrete this week. Aleph Alpha released Kolibri-1 with Apache 2.0 weights, a 78-billion-parameter model built for German and English reasoning and tool use, according to @daogangtang. The license matters as much as the parameter count: Apache 2.0 means organizations can deploy and modify it freely, including commercially.

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