{"city":"Heidelberg","name":"Aleph Alpha","slug":"aleph-alpha","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-16","type":"revenue_band","value":"Below €100m publicly verified","source":"feeds.cms.handelsblatt.com — 2026-09-16"},{"date":"2026-09-16","type":"ownership_change","value":"Controlled by Cohere","source":"feeds.cms.handelsblatt.com — 2026-09-16"},{"date":"2026-09-16","type":"ownership_change","value":"Aleph Alpha acquires Cohere to form an AI competitor to OpenAI","source":"feeds.cms.handelsblatt.com — 2026-09-16"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Schwarz Group committed €500 million in structured financing to Cohere's planned Series E","source":"cohere.com"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"partnership","value":"Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced a planned combination to create a Canadian-German sovereign-AI company","source":"cohere.com"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Schwarz Group committed structured financing to the planned combined venture","source":"cohere.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Baden-Württemberg","aliases":["Kolibri-1"],"country":"Germany","domains":[{"why":"Aleph Alpha markets PhariaAI, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack with language-model capabilities for enterprise and public-sector customers.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":61,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-18","header":"Aleph Alpha introduced a new mid-tier language model.","outlet":"Golem"},{"date":"2026-10-16","header":"Aleph Alpha launched Kolibri-1, an AI model optimized for German-language text and reasoning.","outlet":"Heise"},{"date":"2026-10-06","header":"Aleph Alpha launched the open-weight Kolibri AI model for enterprise and government deployment.","outlet":"Heise"},{"date":"2026-10-05","header":"Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri model uses 3 billion active parameters and German sovereign open weights.","outlet":"The Innermost Loop"},{"date":"2026-10-05","header":"Aleph Alpha published the Kolibri AI model.","outlet":"Handelsblatt, Technologie"},{"date":"2026-10-05","header":"Aleph Alpha launched Kolibri, a sovereign AI model for mission-critical government and industry applications.","outlet":"EU-Startups"}],"website":"aleph-alpha.com","category":"AI · Models & applications","categories":[{"name":"Specialized models","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI · Models & applications"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-25T23:16:48.240585+00:00","facts_total":23,"positioning":"Aleph Alpha is a private Heidelberg-based German AI company supplying specialized language models and the PhariaAI sovereign-AI platform to enterprise and public-sector customers. It launched a tokenizer-free architecture with AMD, Silo AI and Schwarz Digits in Jan-25, expanded its commercialization leadership in Jul-25, then cut approximately 50 jobs in Jan-26; on Apr-24-26 it announced a planned combination with Cohere that remained publicly described as subject to approvals rather than verified as closed. Its ecosystem reach includes Schwarz Group and STACKIT, Bosch, SAP, HPE, Deutsche Bank, Infineon, AMD, Silo AI, the German Federal Employment Agency and BWI, but the open questions are commercial scale, the effect of restructuring and whether the Cohere transaction has legally completed.","sub_category":"Specialized models","signals_total":16,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/aleph-alpha","title":"Aleph Alpha · ai core, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Aleph Alpha markets PhariaAI, an end-to-end sovereign AI stack with language-model capabilities for enterprise and public-sector customers. AI Core watchlist (score 61) 16 signals and 23 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}