Aleph Alpha launches Kolibri AI model for European industry

Heidelberg-based AI company Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a new German-English language model designed for public administration, aviation, and industrial use. The model utilizes a mixture-of-experts architecture with 78 billion parameters, of which approximately three billion are active per token.

Kolibri is positioned as a tool for European AI sovereignty, allowing organizations to maintain control over their own infrastructure to ensure data protection and transparency. The model was developed in compliance with the EU AI Act and was trained using 768 B200 GPUs located in Germany and Finland.

According to the company, Kolibri features a context window of up to one million tokens and aims to balance high quality with low operating costs. The model's weights have been made available under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. This release follows a previously announced trans-Atlantic deal between Aleph Alpha and the Canadian company Cohere.