Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

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

driverdan 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

IMO the announcement is better https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...

	▲	dang an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706. I'm currently merging the threads.
	▲	rpdillon 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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").

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wingman-jr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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pu_pe 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A blog post is not a Show HN topic.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> the weights are on Hugging Face

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

	▲	pu_pe 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The author did not make this model though, they used Claude to write a blog post about it.

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rolymath 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is not a Show HN

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peterBlue75 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	dang an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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

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IndiaInfraNotes 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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