Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78-billion parameter open-weight large language model designed for the German and English markets. The model emphasizes data sovereignty and compliance with the EU AI Act, allowing for local deployment in regulated industries.
Why it matters
This represents a significant push for European technological sovereignty in AI, offering an alternative to US-based models for sensitive public and industrial sectors.
Kolibri is an open-weight large language model (LLM) from Aleph Alpha for German and English: a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters that only uses about 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. It came out on 3 October 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license , the weights are on Hugging Face , and it was trained from scratch on infrastructure in Germany and Finland. (Kolibri is German for hummingbird, which is cute for a model whose whole trick is being light.)
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