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title: "Aleph Alpha's Kolibri AI Uses 21% German Data for EU Compliance"
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# Aleph Alpha's Kolibri AI Uses 21% German Data for EU Compliance

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**Published:** 2026-10-03T21:09:51.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** regulation

## Summary

The German AI research lab designed its latest model to adhere to the General\-Purpose AI Code of Practice and the GDPR from its inception\. This regulatory alignment includes a specific focus on copyright law to develop what the company calls trustworthy technology\. To enhance regional utility, Aleph Alpha utilized a bilingual German\-English tokenizer and ensured organic German content comprised 21\.3% of the system's pre\-training tokens\. While the release of Kolibri has been hailed as a win for sovereign European AI, researcher Ethan Mollick noted the model was fine\-tuned on synthetic data from Chinese models GLM and Qwen\. The system uses a mixture\-of\-experts architecture with 78B total parameters, 3\.46B of which are active, and supports a 1M token context window\. It is distributed under an Apache 2\.0 license, allowing for local hosting and private infrastructure use\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/ai/aleph-alphas-kolibri-ai-uses-21percent-german-data-for-eu-compliance-9910e6ea>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/Aleph__Alpha/status/2106306840657297814>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2106453084020920491>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/emollick/status/2106487816460910912>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2106348150684303422>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/aidangomez/status/2106401716417568841>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/cohere/status/2106454131023995094>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/aleph-alphas-kolibri-ai-uses-21percent-german-data-for-eu-compliance-9910e6ea>)