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German sovereign AI model Kolibri unveiled with 78.1 billion parameters
German AI startup Aleph Alpha has unveiled Kolibri, a new language model aimed at tightly regulated fields such as public administration, industry and aerospace. The model uses a mixture-of-experts structure with 78.1 billion parameters, activating about 3.46 billion when processing tokens, and supports English and German with a maximum 1 million-token context. The company said it follows a “sovereign AI” strategy and released weights and config files on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license.
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Big Tech, startups heat up early race for personal AI agents
Competition is intensifying in personal AI agents for individual users, with Meta launching its Muse assistant app for Mac. Startups are also moving faster, including Instinct developer Sphere Street Technology seeking $1 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation, and Chinese startup Manus pursuing $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. The article also rounds up moves by Korean and overseas companies in AI, enterprise agents, cloud security certification and advertising tests in ChatGPT.
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Cohere, Aleph Alpha agree $20 billion merger
Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a $20 billion merger agreement. SiliconANGLE reported on Sept. 16 local time that the deal formalises an integration plan the two companies announced in April. Pending regulatory approval, the combined company will operate under the Cohere brand. It will keep headquarters in Berlin and Toronto, and use Aleph Alpha’s Heidelberg, Germany headquarters as an AI research centre.
