Issue 59Published October 4, 2026
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Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri on 3 October: an English-German mixture-of-experts Transformer with 78.1 billion total parameters and 3.46 billion active per token. The company says it supports context lengths up to 1 million tokens; full weights are available under Apache 2.0. Its evidence is a vendor release, not an independent replication.
- Aleph Alpha released Kolibri on 3 October: an English-German mixture-of-experts Transformer with 78.1 billion total parameters and 3.46 billion active per token. The company says it supports context lengths up to 1 million tokens; full weights are available under Apache 2.0. Its evidence is a vendor release, not an independent replication.
Why it matters
Kolibri gives regulated and sovereignty-focused teams another model they can evaluate and deploy under open terms, while its low active-parameter design targets a practical cost/latency trade-off. Teams should validate quality, long-context behavior and operating cost on their own workloads before production.
Sources
Aleph Alpha releases KolibriAleph Alpha — Kolibri Has Landed · Oct 4, 2026
