Aleph Alpha Open-Sources Kolibri, Europe's First Sovereign General-Purpose Model

Aleph Alpha, a German AI research lab, has released Kolibri, a 78-billion-parameter open-weight language model with 1 million tokens of context under the Apache 2.0 license. The release marks a significant step toward European AI independence, positioning Germany alongside France's Mistral as a developer of general-purpose large language models built and governed within the EU.