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Aleph Alpha's Kolibri lets users dial reasoning effort from none to high
ResearchNovember 3, 2026

Aleph Alpha's Kolibri lets users dial reasoning effort from none to high

Aleph Alpha's recently released Kolibri model lets users choose how long it reasons, with four settings: none, low, medium or high. The company says its training data…

Aleph Alpha: Bits-per-Byte Metric Penalizes Short Answers, PriorBPB Fixes It
ResearchOctober 13, 2026

Aleph Alpha: Bits-per-Byte Metric Penalizes Short Answers, PriorBPB Fixes It

Aleph Alpha researchers say the widely used bits-per-byte (BPB) metric for evaluating pre-trained language models is biased by the length of the correct answer, and they…

Aleph Alpha says its Kolibri model beats larger rivals on agentic RAG tasks
ModelsOctober 8, 2026

Aleph Alpha says its Kolibri model beats larger rivals on agentic RAG tasks

Aleph Alpha says its open-weight model Kolibri achieves the best average score across seven agentic RAG benchmarks among the leading open-weight models the company…

Research
ResearchOctober 7, 2026

Aleph Alpha details how architecture choices drive LLM cost, with Kolibri as reference

Aleph Alpha has published a research blog post that works out how core architecture choices in autoregressive language models determine training and serving cost. The…

Research
ResearchOctober 6, 2026

Aleph Alpha: Leaked Benchmark Data Inflated HumanEval Scores by 45 Points

Aleph Alpha says it removed 1.5 million documents quoting benchmark items from the mid-training pool of its Kolibri model, and that putting them back in a proxy run…

Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a German-focused model for public sector and industry
ModelsOctober 5, 2026

Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a German-focused model for public sector and industry

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a specialized large language model for mission-critical applications in public administration and industry. According to the company…

Models
ModelsOctober 3, 2026

Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight 78B model for regulated sectors

Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer with 78B total parameters and 3B active, under the Apache 2.0 license. According to…