Ex-AWS Evangelist Debunks Kolibri as Europe's DeepSeek Moment
Former AWS evangelist Julien Simon analyzed Aleph Alpha's open-source 78B German-English model Kolibri, revealing it cost about 492,000 GPU hours and roughly $3 million to train, while arguing that calling it "Europe's DeepSeek moment" is a collective misreading.
2026-10-06 ~ 2026-10-06 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: Aleph Alpha open-sources Kolibri-1: a 78B MoE with only 3.46B active params(2026-10-03, 14 posts)
- Episode 2: Aleph Alpha Open-Sources Kolibri: 78B-Parameter Model with 1M Context(2026-10-05, 3 posts)
- Episode 3: Ex-AWS Evangelist Debunks Kolibri as Europe's DeepSeek Moment(2026-10-06, 2 posts)
- Julien Simon: Calling Aleph Alpha's Kolibri 'Europe's DeepSeek Moment' Is a Misreading — julsimon · 2026-10-06
- Kolibri by the Numbers: 492,000 GPU-Hours, ~$3M Training Run — 'Large Enough' Beats Frontier — julsimon · 2026-10-06