Aleph Alpha Kolibri: Open-Weight German-English Model
German AI company Aleph Alpha has published Kolibri, a bilingual German-English language model with openly available weights. The company is pitching it as a practical tool for public administration, aviation and industry. It also sees the model as evidence that Europe can build competitive AI on its own terms.
Kolibri is the German word for hummingbird. According to the company's technical report, the model was trained on European hardware, developed under European law and designed with the EU AI Act in mind. The AI Act is the European Union's framework for regulating AI systems.