What a generational fumble from Mistral.
The French startup was meant to be the sovereign AI alternative in Europe.
Instead, it moved away from building models to applications and infrastructure.
It decided to move away just at the time when open source models became good enough and cheap enough to be viable.
Now Aleph Alpha has swooped in with a cheap, high-performing, open-source model.
The German company has raised about 15% of the cash that Mistral has riased.
Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here.
78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe.
Now the weights are yours. Run it on your own hardware, under Apache 2.0.