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Aleph Alpha Open-Sources Kolibri: 78.1B-Parameter English-German MoE Activating Only 3.46B per Token

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Summary

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an open-weight MoE language model with 78.1B total parameters focused on English and German, activating only 3.46B parameters per token, about 4.4% utilization. Features include up to 1,048,576-token context, adjustable inference effort on demand, and Apache 2.0 licens…

Key points

  • For teams that need to deploy bilingual models in their own or regulated environments, this is a concrete option they can download and operate themselves.
  • An efficient open-source MoE with low activated parameters lets sovereignty and compliance use cases deploy long-context bilingual capabilities at lower hardware thresholds.
  • Developers can deploy a million-token-context model on one or two GPUs, lowering self-hosted inference costs, but must bear operational and compliance responsibility themselves.

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