Aleph Alpha Ships Kolibri-1: A Sovereign European Model Under Apache 2.0

Germany's Aleph Alpha released a 78.1B-parameter sparse model with a 1M context window and a fully permissive license — a direct bet that European sovereignty and open weights can coexist with frontier ambition.

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri-1, a model built explicitly as a European sovereign alternative to American and Chinese frontier systems, according to @daogangtang. The specs are the story: 78.1 billion total parameters with just 3.46 billion active, a one-million-token context window, and an Apache 2.0 license that places almost no restrictions on commercial use.

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