dang20 days ago
We've merged (most of) the comments into this thread, which is currently on the frontpage:
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706 - Oct 2026 (46 comments)
driverdan21 days ago
IMO the announcement is better https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-soverei...
dang20 days ago
It's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706. I'm currently merging the threads.
rpdillon21 days ago
Agree, and both are on the front page. Also, Show HN is usually for your own project, but this appears to be a blog post about someone else's project (albeit "a good friend").
wingman-jr21 days ago
While it's not perhaps clear to me that this is a true Show HN, I enjoyed the writeup and it's good to see our German colleagues across the pond taking a good shot at this. I also appreciated the brief description on the Merlin-Arthur protocol - seems like a clever way to try to tackle the "I don't know" problem.
Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe20 days ago
I'm always wondering why new models don't always adopt deepseek's KV tweaks. It's insanely valuable to have such powerful prefix caching and so cheap at inference time.
Are there drawbacks to this?
rolymath21 days ago
This is not a Show HN
pu_pe21 days ago
A blog post is not a Show HN topic.
embedding-shape21 days ago
> the weights are on Hugging Face
> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with
pu_pe21 days ago
The author did not make this model though, they used Claude to write a blog post about it.
peterBlue7521 days ago
The thing to note here, besides the transparency and the fact that it’s actually a good model that also works well on coding and agentic tasks, is that it’s the first release by a team formed less than a year ago, with a strong focus on iteration velocity. There’s more to come.
disclaimer: I‘m part of the training team, happy to answer any questions
dang20 days ago
Please don't copy-paste comments - it makes merging threads a pain! (and indeed the temptation to copy-paste is indication that a discussion needs merging)
p.s. It's a great comment! no problem on that level
IndiaInfraNotes20 days ago
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