Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri is a from-scratch 78B open MoE that tops Qwen, Mistral, and Nemotron on its own active-parameter benchmarks.

On German Reunification Day, Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a from-scratch 78-billion-parameter MoE with 3.46 billion active weights and a one-million-token context window under Apache 2.0, and its public benchmark tables put it ahead of Qwen, Mistral, and Nemotron models in the same active-parameter class on composite English and German scores.