Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English
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Kolibri is a German and English large language model (LLM) developed by Aleph Alpha, a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters but only using about 3.5 billion parameters for each token. It was released on October 3rd, 2026, under the Apache 2.0 license, with weights available on Hugging Face. Trained from scratch in Germany and Finland, Kolibri is designed to be sovereign, meaning customers can run it on their own servers with their data never leaving the premises, ensuring compliance and intellectual-property safety.
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