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The Escalation of War in Ethiopia

https://www.africanistperspective.com/p/on-the-escalation-of-war-in-ethiopia
41•mooreds•2h ago•15 comments

Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri
78•tejaskumar__•3h ago•48 comments

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311•azhenley•13h ago•88 comments

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23•rramadass•1d ago•1 comments

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691•hn_acker•1d ago•326 comments

Apple Pass Designer

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473•soheilpro•18h ago•290 comments

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534•CoryOndrejka•1d ago•122 comments

Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
34•bastitx•4h ago•3 comments

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Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

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118•est•10h ago•44 comments

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50•vanyauhalin•3h ago•62 comments

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

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109•pentagrama•9h ago•51 comments

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280•fibo•19h ago•79 comments

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Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

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232•notfirstpost•18h ago•157 comments
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Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri

https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri
76•tejaskumar__•3h ago

Comments

sajithdilshan•1h ago
> It knows less from memory, Multi-turn tool calling is weaker, It’s not the best coding agent

Then what does it good at? Sending faxes?

skrebbel•1h ago
Well that’s a pretty important skill for German users!
sajithdilshan•36m ago
Unfortunately yes.
moooo99•19m ago
I know this is a long standing joke, but I am 27 now, born and raised in Germany, and genuinely never had the opportunity to use a Fax machine. It honestly kind of bums me out because there is something that seems cool about Fax (being fully aware that it should be fully obsolete by now)
IshKebab•12m ago
Fax was never cool.
stogot•59m ago
GPT was better at chat and rag before coding
mhitza•59m ago
I don't have the hardware to test this, but being trained to say "I don't know" instead of misleadingly talking confidently about what it does not know is interesting in itself.
m00dy•34m ago
I was thinking about the use cases for Germany residents actually, but yes, you're right. A German AI model needs to be able to handle fax machines (there's a bit variety of them) and also needs to handle letters coming home. german image-to-text.
pettijohn•10m ago
Seems like it's good at reading German documents and reasoning over them. Custom German-language tokenizer, and one of the least hallucinating models.
martianvoid•59m ago
I just tried to play around with it on my RTX pro 6000 setup, it spends way too many tokens on overthinking stuff even if it’s able to catch the correct approach

Its speed is pretty good on the other hand with only 3B active parameters I am getting around 170 tkn/s on fp8

gizajob•59m ago
> it spends way too many tokens on overthinking stuff

Yeah. It’s a German model.

rubyfan•40m ago
Hey!
sajithdilshan•37m ago
This joke is either gonna get over analyzed by the Germans or gonna fly past straight over their heads
hypfer•29m ago
I'm not sure if this is truly a good faith joke tbh.
dudefeliciano•20m ago
petition to make this thread the official german jokes thread for this post, it's kind of annoying how everyone feels the need to make a top level comment for their oh-so-great "germans suck" joke.
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cbarrick•50m ago
I got distracted by that scroll-wheel UI component on the page. Neat!
reacharavindh•7m ago
The scroll wheel was cool indeed. Check their home page.. their talks on a carousel over a horizontal timeline was cool even on a phone browser.
pythonic_hell•50m ago
The benchmarks are impressive given the problem space they are working in.
rrr_oh_man•25m ago
German government?
sajithdilshan•17m ago
More like Chancellor’s Office
9dev•49m ago
Aleph Alpha is just a sad joke by now. The talent isn't there anymore, they never managed to catch up to the other labs, failed to deliver on several projects, and by now are just a cash grab for the investors.
gchamonlive•27m ago
Only if you think in terms of short term gains, but thinking in the long run, doesn't really matter if these models are crap today, all models will eventually be obsolete, unless we plateau hard on every aspect of the tech.

What matters is to have good sovereign models in 5, 10, 20 years time.

roncesvalles•20m ago
I'm curious why you think sovereign models matter that much if open source ones exist (unless that stops at some point). Sovereign model hosting services, yes.
hypfer•18m ago
The first thought that comes to mind is biases that are baked into the weights.

The next thought is culture-specific workflows, requirements etc that are best trained into weights by people that actually understand those needs.

gchamonlive•17m ago
We have lots of capable open weights models, but very few have actual datasets and pipelines open for reproducibility. This is a major issue that even if big companies addressed, policies could well just change, as you also acknowledge.

Society can't depend on the whims of the private sector.

d2kx•36m ago
German here. We are cheering for Mistral, which is making some good moves before the year is over, and Black Forest Labs for non-coding. But that's about it.
hypfer•23m ago
Speak for yourself and yourself only.
driverdan•33m ago
IMO the announcement is better https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...
Lucasoato•28m ago
> 4. It thinks in German

This means that it’s always on time, it uses acronyms for everything and when there’s a decision to be made, it sets up a committee.

hypfer•24m ago
Do we get the same kind of jokes with other nationalities too?
Lucasoato•12m ago
We can joke with every country, except one maybe.
stymaar•9m ago
> This means that it’s always on time

Tell that to Deutch Bahn.

api•27m ago
His point about regulation and innovation is great and I wish more people thought like that.

One of humanity’s biggest problems here is we don’t know how to do moderation.

We have two modes. One is a brick taped to the accelerator and damn all consequences, driven by national pride or corporate greed or egos. The other is a brick taped to the brake driven by histrionic doomers and anti-everything pessimists.

The extremes are loud and fit in a tweet. Nuance is quiet and contemplative and usually requires an essay or a book. It’s also dynamic. Nuanced positions evolve over time as new things are learned. Extremes tend to be fixed and rigid. All this, I think, gives them higher memetic fitness in the discourse.

I don’t think this is new. Look at nuclear power, a largely pre-Internet example. You had pro nukes who minimized and hand waved away any risk and anti nukes that wanted it utterly outlawed. Nobody said “hey this is a great zero carbon source of energy but we really need to think it through carefully and manage it well.” Or if they did they were drowned out by the loud screaming extremes.

woadwarrior01•25m ago
> A bigger dense model beats it. Qwen3.8 27B ...

How is a 27B dense model bigger than a 78B MoE?

SyneRyder•15m ago
The 27B has all 27B as active parameters, while Kolibri is only 3.46B active parameters. I think that's what they meant anyway.
x1watt•23m ago
Was expecting that a "sovereign" AI model would at least use their own sovereign language (German) on the website as one of the options. Anyways, all the best and happy reunification day.
flohofwoe•13m ago
This 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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24m ago
Did you try lower reasoning modes as well?
HotHotLava•7m ago
Just open weights are not enough, I think as a nation state you'd at least want a whole sovereign training pipeline. Otherwise you are stuck when Kimi K4 stops releasing their weights.

But I don't see why this needs to be done on a state-by-state level, a sovereign EU model seems to be much more realistic in terms of funding.

9dev•14m ago
For the same reason it didn't matter whether coach makers were able to build carriages that went 5% faster when the automobile was introduced, and for the same reason it won't matter if VW and Mercedes are going to improve their EV lineup in the next 5, 10, 20 years time. Their window of opportunity will be long gone and the momentum elsewhere; most probably, the market will even have evolved further by then.
KronisLV•12m ago
> it won't matter if VW and Mercedes are going to improve their EV lineup in the next 5, 10, 20 years time

I mean, given the fuel prices it would be very nice, alongside more charging infrastructure in the EU. :(

Not to detract from the overall point.

hypfer•12m ago
And who are you, exactly?
gchamonlive•12m ago
When you mention a window of opportunity, what do you mean by that? A window of opportunity for what?
mmasu•8m ago
maybe to have a global market share, but there are plenty of players that picked up pace when they “decided” to build cars (Japan? South Korea? and many more) or electronics. Having a good sovereign model in 10/20 years might not need having the absolute best there is, and perhaps future optimizations will make building one not as prohibitively expensive as it is today. Keeping some sort of homebrew capacity now is definitely better than having none