Germany released a free model built to think in German.
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri on Saturday, an open-weight model for German and English. It holds 78.1 billion parameters but uses only a twentieth of them per word. The weights sit on Hugging Face under a licence that permits commercial use.
Why it mattersEuropean offices can now run a capable model on their own machines. That matters where the law forbids sending documents to a foreign cloud.
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