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Aleph Alpha
Company blog · aleph-alpha.com/en/blogai
Aleph Alpha is the company blog at aleph-alpha.com, writing about ai. Since 2022, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Aleph Alpha's blog for its Kolibri model announcements, posts on German pre-training data, hallucination bounding via abstention, and benchmark results against OpenAI davinci.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aleph Alpha entwickelt spezialisierte Sprachmodelle und KI-Lösungen für Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen in Europa.
Most-linked posts?
- Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-10-03
- Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-03
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-11
- Benchmark Aleph Alpha's Luminous vs. Bloom, Opt, GPT-32 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-21
- Bounding Hallucinations: Merlin-Arthur Protocols for Mutual-Information Bounds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-03
- Pioneering sovereign, European AI technology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-02
What Hacker News says?
Hey, I worked on pre-training data Kolibri. We spent considerable time and effort to go beyond just translating. For example by building a pipeline that processes Common Crawl dumps specifically for German. You might be interested in a related blog post: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/sauerkraut-not-burgers-why-g... We also talk more about German pre-training data in the tech report: https://aleph-alpha.com/downloa…
Comment linking /downloads/tech-report.pdf
on “Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model”Submitted Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model as a story · 713 points
HN discussion>We trained Kolibri with abstention data and with our Merlin-Arthur protocol. As a result, it is trained to say "I don't know" when the answer isn't in the context. https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/bounding-hallucinations-merl...
Comment linking /en/blog/bounding-hallucinations-merlin-arthur-protocols-for-mutual-information-bounds-in-language-models/
on “Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model”Submitted Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf] as a story · 110 points
HN discussionCan't you infer the comparisons you would like from baseline results provided? There are better results in the sibling post on HN: https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...
Comment linking /en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
on “Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model”Submitted Pharia-1-LLM: transparent and compliant as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe paper explains absolutely everything as if it was a tutorial "how to made your own modern agentic LLM". They even tell how they made their dataset. https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf ; It's the first time I see this level of openness.
Comment linking /downloads/tech-report.pdf
on “Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model”Submitted Bounding Hallucinations: Merlin-Arthur Protocols for Mutual-Information Bounds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is a blog post by some "random" dude right? The company webpage appears to be German (at least when accessed from Germany: https://aleph-alpha.com/ )
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on “Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model”Submitted Model Training as Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe criterion that decides dupeness is not whether the URLs are identical, but whether the new submission can support a substantially different discussion. The report is certainly useful! but there is no way that the two threads would remain partitioned, with one about the model in general and another about this report in particular. Therefore the later submission, although the link is different, needs to be treated…
Comment linking /downloads/tech-report.pdf
on “Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]”Submitted Designing Kolibri: Architecture Trade-Offs from First Principles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI first thought this is from the German AI/LLM company Aleph Alpha [1] but learned it is a different enterprise albeit in the same domain. It's still quite a hustle and bustle in the zoo, I'm looking forward to a little more overview and a little less hype … [1] https://aleph-alpha.com/
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on “Alephic Writing Style Guide”Submitted Aleph Alpha and STACKIT have partnered to deliver PhariaAI-as-a-Service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEuropean LLM beating OpenAI davinci at NLP: https://www.aleph-alpha.com/luminous-performance-benchmarks It'll probably be "good enough" for most industry usecases ;) And you can run it offline and on-prem, which is a big deal to the many companies who DO NOT want their internal data leaking to OpenAI. And the Carrefour AI stuff is hosted on OVH cloud (in France), I believe: https://www.carrefour.com/en/news/artifici…
Comment linking /luminous-performance-benchmarks
on “Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation”Submitted Aleph Alpha Lands $500M+ Investment from Major Investors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAleph Alpha: https://aleph-alpha.com/ , raised more than 500 million USD: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-06/german-gi... , which makes it a notable effort, I suppose.
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on “There's something going on with AI startups in France”Submitted Benchmark Aleph Alpha's Luminous vs. Bloom, Opt, GPT-3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is always bashing if there is something about the EU and its national projects, not always deserved. However sometimes I wished HN showed more of local projects. For example: has there been a post about the European AI? https://www.aleph-alpha.com/
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on “IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink”Submitted Pioneering sovereign, European AI technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIMO the announcement is better https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...
Comment linking /en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
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