Kolibri's weights really are downloadable under Apache 2.0. The sovereign label sits beside a signed deal for Aleph Alpha to operate globally as Cohere.
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a German and English model, as a sovereign open-weight model under Apache 2.0.
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Aleph Alpha's Kolibri is a sovereign open-weight model that matches models with up to four times its active parameters.
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The model can be downloaded with the full weights on Hugging Face and used under the Apache 2.0 license terms.
Kolibri matches models with up to four times its active parameter count, such as Nemotron 3 Super.
trained it on infrastructure in Germany and Finland, under European and German law
Model memory footprint: ~78 GB (FP8 weights).
Supporting two languages rather than many is a deliberate choice of depth over breadth.
Customers have full freedom of deployment and intellectual-property safety
today announced the signing of a definitive business combination agreement
Operating globally as Cohere, the unified company will effectively create the first transatlantic sovereign AI solution.
The transaction remains subject to final regulatory approvals.
Qwen3.8 27B scores 80.2 in English and 79.9 in German, but it uses nearly 8 times as many parameters for every token
Qwen3.8 27B beats Kolibri 79.9 vs 70.8 in German in Kolibri's harness on Kolibri's benchmark.