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Samuel Weinbach

Co-founder and Co-Chief Research Officer, Aleph Alpha, named behind the Kolibri-1 listing on Anchor Terminal.

Co-founder and Co-Chief Research Officer, Aleph Alpha

Samuel Weinbach co-founded Aleph Alpha in 2019 with Jonas Andrulis and is its co-chief research officer. He spoke for the company at the Kolibri launch in October 2026, and under the agreed combination with Cohere he is to become Cohere's chief research officer. His research spans tokenisation, language model training and explainability.

What Samuel builds

  • Kolibri-1 C · Open-weight models

    Kolibri-1 is Aleph Alpha's open-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model for German and English, 78B parameters with 3.46B active per token, published on Hugging Face in FP8 and BF16 under Apache 2.0 and served with vLLM.

    Co-founder and Co-Chief Research Officer, Aleph Alpha, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Samuel Weinbach?

Samuel Weinbach co-founded Aleph Alpha in 2019 with Jonas Andrulis and is its co-chief research officer. He spoke for the company at the Kolibri launch in October 2026, and under the agreed combination with Cohere he is to become Cohere's chief research officer. His research spans tokenisation, language model training and explainability.

What does Aleph Alpha make?

Anchor Terminal lists Kolibri-1 from Aleph Alpha. Kolibri-1 is Aleph Alpha's open-weight mixture-of-experts reasoning model for German and English, 78B parameters with 3.46B active per token, published on Hugging Face in FP8 and BF16 under Apache 2.0 and served with vLLM.

How are Samuel's tools graded?

Kolibri-1 is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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