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Posted by bastitx 14 hours ago

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model(aleph-alpha.com)
tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf

additional paper: https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri

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erelong 7 hours ago|
is this like an unfortunate name clash with KolibriOS (kind of like how Google Gemini was a clash with the Gemini protocol project)?
acheron 1 hour ago|
It’s also a name clash with arguably the finest hummingbird-based shooter for the 32X. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolibri_(video_game)
JaggerJo 8 hours ago||
Is this a truely open source model or also open weights?
peterBlue75 6 hours ago|
The weights have been published to HF on an apache2.0 license, and the tech report is quite extensive
woadwarrior01 10 hours ago||
> A bigger dense model beats it. Qwen3.8 27B ...

How is a 27B dense model bigger than a 78B MoE?

SyneRyder 10 hours ago|
The 27B has all 27B as active parameters, while Kolibri is only 3.46B active parameters. I think that's what they meant anyway.
cbarrick 11 hours ago||
I got distracted by that scroll-wheel UI component on the page. Neat!
dang 6 hours ago||
Can somebody mention the URL of the page with this? We're merging the threads and I don't want a dangling pointer!
reacharavindh 10 hours ago||
The scroll wheel was cool indeed. Check their home page.. their talks on a carousel over a horizontal timeline was cool even on a phone browser.
orifito 10 hours ago||
At least Germany is moving smarter than UK government...
testfrequency 10 hours ago|
TIL
wg0 5 hours ago||
Anyone thinking this won't improve or is behind etc is blatantly wrong. It'll catchup within a year. Like that unknown wise and visionary man inside Google once said about their competitors: We have no moat neither does anyone else."

Congrats to the team.

peterBlue75 4 hours ago|
Thanks! What matters to us right now is not so much our current position, but the velocity with which we’re moving. Kolibri 1 is the first measurement of our position, there’ll be more. We want to build this in Europe and this is only the start. The report also shows our focus on building out proper tooling with our Model Factory.
veryfancy 10 hours ago||
Nice to see public goods in this space.
ThouYS 9 hours ago||
calling qwen 27B a bigger model.. I don't know man. My vram says otherwise.
cyanydeez 11 hours ago|
Interesting they recommended high end software without considering quant 4 or 8 and still used A3B which should give good throughput on cheap hardware.

If they can follow Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, the could draft off the huge reduction in VRAM requirements.

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