Model Training as Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673450 - June 2026 (24 comments)

> This report introduces Kolibri, an English–German Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters per token, released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence.

> We built Kolibri for sovereign and specialised deployment, with a particular focus on German and on regulated domains such as public administration, industry, and aerospace. To support these settings, we control the full model-development process, including data, architecture, training infrastructure, post-training, and evaluation.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706