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German startup Aleph Alpha launched Kolibri, an open weight reasoning model distributed under an Apache 2.0 open source license. The system uses a mixture of experts architecture that keeps compute costs low by activating only a fraction of its parameters during inference.

Dr. Wieland Holfelder outlined Google's multi tiered strategy for European cloud sovereignty, ranging from local encryption management to fully isolated data setups for defense clients. He also disclosed that automated AI systems currently help generate three quarters of all software code written within Google.