Reposted by Ivo Damjanović
Finally, there is a bit more competition on the AI space from a European initiative, here from Germany in the form of Kolibri-1. It looks like a model that can compete with some of the Chinese open-source model, and is particuarly trained on German/European data:
aleph-alpha.com
Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critic...