Kolibri
Open-weight English-German language model, Apache 2.0
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Details
- External ID
- 1268591
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kolibri
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence
Description
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts language model from Aleph Alpha, with 78B total and 3B active parameters and a context of up to 1M tokens. Aleph Alpha released it on the Day of German Reunification, with full weights on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. It is specialized for German, reasoning, math and agentic behavior, aimed at regulated sectors such as public administration, industrials and aerospace, and it is designed to run on-premise. It follows Kolibri Origin, a 3
Enrichment
- Niche
- generative video model API gateways
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-weight english-german llm for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Training a 78B Mixture-of-Experts foundation model with a 1M token context window demands millions of dollars in compute, custom distributed training clusters, and frontier ML research expertise.
What it would actually take: Building Kolibri requires orchestrating thousands of high-end GPUs connected via high-speed InfiniBand using distributed frameworks like Megatron-LM or DeepSpeed. The team must assemble and curate multi-terabyte English and German pre-training corpora, implement custom MoE routing architectures, and tune long-context attention kernels. This requires an elite team of ML research scientists and high-performance computing infrastructure engineers.
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