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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

668 points · 327 comments · bastitx

  1. miellaby · · focus · HN ↗
    The paper explains absolutely everything as if it was a tutorial &quot;how to made your own modern agentic LLM&quot;. They even tell how they made their dataset. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aleph-alpha.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;tech-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aleph-alpha.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;tech-report.pdf ; It&#x27;s the first time I see this level of openness.
    1. ofjcihen · · focus · HN ↗
      Hopefully this becomes the new standard.

      It’s seemed crazy to me that anyone thought these could stay closed or even SHOULD be closed source.

      1. Loquebantur · · focus · HN ↗
        Be cautious what you wish for. Tools don&#x27;t tell you what to do with them.

        Open source LLMs &quot;democratize&quot; access to the &quot;intelligence booster&quot; that is AI. But while that has several benefits, it also has several downsides.

        Humanity has the serious problem of being underdeveloped in the &quot;spiritual&quot; department. Ethics is often considered some sort of lifestyle choice, but it&#x27;s actually the difference between order and chaos in a society.

        Everybody being able to do anything means somebody will be able to do something you don&#x27;t like. At an arbitrary scale.

        1. OtomotO · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; Humanity has the serious problem of being underdeveloped in the &quot;spiritual&quot; department.

          As is shown to us by filthy rich people every day.

          Or did you mean the burglar in the fawellas?

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