Aleph Alpha open-sources Kolibri-1: 78B MoE (3.46B active), bilingual DE/EN Apache-2.0; SWE-Verified 66.4
On 3 Oct 2026, Aleph Alpha released open-weight Kolibri-1 (HF, Apache-2.0): 78B MoE / ~3.46B active, bilingual DE/EN, 262k native context (1M extrapolated), reasoning effort + tools. Official card: LiveCodeBench v6 85.9, SWE-Bench Verified 66.4, TerminalBench 2.1 27.7. Serve via aleph-alpha-inference + vLLM.

Key Takeaways
- Shipped 2026-10-03; weights Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 Apache-2.0; blog on aleph-alpha.com
- 78B total / ~3.46B active; ~78GB FP8; native 262k context (validated to 1M)
- Official card: LiveCodeBench v6 85.9 · SWE-Verified 66.4 · TerminalBench 2.1 27.7 · HumanEval+ 92.7
- Serve: aleph-alpha-inference +
vllm serve Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1with kolibri1 parsers - Sovereign DE/EN on-prem focus — not a Terminal-Bench leader vs denser peers