# Samuel Weinbach (slim)

> Samuel Weinbach is co-founder and Co-Chief Research Officer of Aleph Alpha. Kolibri-1 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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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.

## What Samuel builds

- [Kolibri-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kolibri-1.md), graded C, 61/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Jonas Andrulis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jonas-andrulis/), Founder, Aleph Alpha

## Backed by

- [Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/innovation-park-artificial-intelligence-ipai/)
- [Bosch Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bosch-ventures/)
- [Schwarz Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/schwarz-group/)
- [Christ&Company Consulting](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/christ-company-consulting/)
- [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/hewlett-packard-enterprise/)
- [SAP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sap/)
- [Burda Principal Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/burda-principal-investments/)

## Questions

### Who is Samuel Weinbach?

Samuel Weinbach co-founded Aleph Alpha in 2019 with Jonas Andrulis and is its co-chief research officer.

### What does Aleph Alpha make?

Anchor Terminal lists Kolibri-1 from Aleph Alpha.

### Who has invested in Aleph Alpha?

The sources our research read name Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai), Bosch Ventures, Schwarz Group, Christ&Company Consulting, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SAP and Burda Principal Investments.

### 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.

## Sources

- https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
- https://aleph-alpha.com/
- https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/kolibri-sovereign-ai-made-in-germany/
- https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/cohere-agreement-transatlantic-sovereign-ai/
- https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/cohere-aleph-alpha-global-ai-powerhouse/
- https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/leadership-team-expanded/
- https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/half-billion-dollar-investment-round/
- https://aleph-alpha.com/en/news/reto-spoerri-leaves-ilhan-scheer-ceo/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_Alpha

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.