Aleph Alpha

Models & products

Models

Kolibri

Trends

• Countries build sovereign AI stacks to reduce US dependence
• Western labs counter China's open-weight lead

Items

1. Oct 3

   Aleph Alpha's Kolibri

   A sovereign German-English MoE (78B total, 3B active, 1M context) released with full weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 and built for regulated public-sector and industrial deployment on customer-controlled infrastructure.

2. Sep 16

   Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign $20B combination

   The Canadian and German labs signed a business-combination agreement valued at roughly $20B to form a dual-headquartered transatlantic sovereign-AI provider on Schwarz Group's CLOUD Act-exempt STACKIT cloud, with Schwarz leading Cohere's Series E via a €500M commitment.