Aleph Alpha AI Releases: Kolibri-1

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Aleph Alpha release so far: Kolibri-1 on Oct 8, 2026. Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1, a 78B German-English MoE under Apache 2.0. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

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Kolibri-1

Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1, a 78B German-English MoE under Apache 2.0

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri-1, a 78B mixture-of-experts model with 3.46B active parameters, trained from scratch on German and English, with 1M context, under Apache 2.0. It fits on a single H200. Wolfram's verdict from vacation: a promising specialized German tool worker.

78B total parameters3.46B active parameters1M context
Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1 (HF) ↗Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1 (X) ↗Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1 (Tech report) ↗Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1 (Wolfram’s test) ↗
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