Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works(tej.as)
409 pointsby tejaskumar__12 hours ago7 comments
  • dang5 hours ago
    We've merged (most of) the comments into this thread, which is currently on the frontpage:

    Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 - Oct 2026 (46 comments)

  • driverdan9 hours ago
    IMO the announcement is better https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...
    • dang5 hours ago
      It's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706. I'm currently merging the threads.
    • rpdillon8 hours ago
      Agree, and both are on the front page. Also, Show HN is usually for your own project, but this appears to be a blog post about someone else's project (albeit "a good friend").
  • wingman-jr7 hours ago
    While it's not perhaps clear to me that this is a true Show HN, I enjoyed the writeup and it's good to see our German colleagues across the pond taking a good shot at this. I also appreciated the brief description on the Merlin-Arthur protocol - seems like a clever way to try to tackle the "I don't know" problem.
  • pu_pe8 hours ago
    A blog post is not a Show HN topic.
    • embedding-shape8 hours ago
      > the weights are on Hugging Face

      > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with

      • pu_pe8 hours ago
        The author did not make this model though, they used Claude to write a blog post about it.
  • rolymath8 hours ago
    This is not a Show HN
  • peterBlue755 hours ago
    The thing to note here, besides the transparency and the fact that it’s actually a good model that also works well on coding and agentic tasks, is that it’s the first release by a team formed less than a year ago, with a strong focus on iteration velocity. There’s more to come.

    disclaimer: I‘m part of the training team, happy to answer any questions

    • dang5 hours ago
      Please don't copy-paste comments - it makes merging threads a pain! (and indeed the temptation to copy-paste is indication that a discussion needs merging)

      p.s. It's a great comment! no problem on that level

  • IndiaInfraNotes4 hours ago
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