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Why it matters
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open German-English AI model
The Decoder Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight model that makes the case for European AI sovereignty
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78-billion-parameter open-weight model with over 21 percent German training data, trained on 768 B200 GPUs.
Why it matters
Europe gets a freely available model trained in Germany and Finland, giving European organizations an option that doesn't depend on US or Chinese providers.
Latest brief · Oct 19, 2026