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Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri

Kolibri is a new sovereign AI model developed by Aleph Alpha for German and English languages. It is a mixture of experts model with 78 billion parameters, but only uses around 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. Kolibri was trained from scratch on infrastructure in Germany and Finland and was released under the Apache 2.0 license.

It was built with the EU AI Act in mind, and scores above every compared model of its size in both languages. It is sovereign in the sense that it was built in Germany, trained on infrastructure in Germany and Finland, and customers have full freedom of deployment and intellectual-property safety.

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