Kolibri is an open-weight LLM from Aleph Alpha for German and English

Overview

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...

Summary from tej.as.