Show HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri
Kolibri is a sovereign, open-weight German/English LLM designed for regulated environments: it can be deployed on-premises, keeps data under customer control, and was built with EU AI Act considerations from the start. For CIOs, the strategic value is reduced compliance and residency risk plus stronger local-language performance, but IT teams should note the tradeoff: it behaves like a smaller model at inference while still requiring heavyweight memory and infrastructure planning because the full 78B-parameter model must remain resident.
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