
tej.as
October 3, 2026
16 min read
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Summary
Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works Kolibri is an open-weight large language model (LLM) from Aleph Alpha for German and English: a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters that only uses about 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. It came out on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, the weights are on Hugging Face, and it was trained from scratch o...