NEXT GENERATION AI MADE IN EUROPE

The power to

understand

create

solve

act

dream

feel

think

USE CASES LUMINOUS

Our BUSINESS

Pioneering sovereign, European AI technology to transform human-machine interaction that can find solutions for the challenges of tomorrow.

European AI value chain

We aspire to innovation leadership in AI to ensure sovereignty for our public and private sector partners. For that, we provide a complete “Made in Europe” AI value chain offering, ranging from research and development over computing to consulting.

Adhering to Open Source

We have open-sourced our core codebase to spark constructive discussions with research- and open-source communities on how to develop transformative AI applications that generate trust and acceptance for AI.

Offering high performance computing

We own and operate Europe’s largest commercially available high-performance AI cluster, which is located in Germany. Customers with sensitive data can process their data in compliance with European requirements for data protection and security on sovereign, European computing infrastructure.

Conducting state-of-the-art research

We are determined to gear human-machine interaction toward the needs of humans. That’s why we turn our cooperative state-of-the-art AI research into transformative applications, that attempt to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.

Ability to scale

We support worldwide scaling on all cloud infrastructures, giving customers the greatest flexibility to operate and scale our AI models in or outside of Europe.

Independent ownership

We are under European ownership and strategic autonomy, addressing the public and private sector’s rising concerns about non-European AI technology. This puts us in a unique position to contribute to safeguarding Europe’s digital sovereignty.

OUR RESEARCH

Research & Development stands at the core of our doing and therefore we want to share our results and views and those of others for all to discuss.

Mon Feb 20 2023

Luminous Performance Benchmarks

The research compares Luminous to the models from GPT-3 and ChatGPT developer OpenAI, among others. The scientific comparison included tasks related to text classification, evaluation, and generation, as well as answering questions about specific text contents. The result is impressive – with Luminous, a European AI language model is, for the first time, on par with the world's leading AI language models, while being much more efficient.

Mon Oct 17 2022

Aleph Alpha and Graphcore demonstrate 80% sparsified AI Model

Aleph Alpha and our partner Graphcore are unveiling a significant advance in AI compute efficiency, with the sparsification of a 13bn parameter model down to just 2.6bn parameters.

Fri Sep 23 2022

Luminous-Explore - A model for world-class semantic representation

In this post we present our semantic embedding model Luminous-Explore, show state-of-the-art results on two public benchmarks and go into detail on the philosophy and practical use of semantic representations.

Tue Aug 23 2022

Alignment and emotions for humans and AI: If we want to trust AI, we may need to hurt it

AI becomes meaningfully more capable almost every month. With this new fidelity and transformative use-cases, society is rethinking the human-machine-collaboration and ethical alignment.

News about us

Press appearances

Mon Feb 20 2023

So will das deutsche Start-up Aleph Alpha sich mit OpenAI messen

Aleph Alpha hat eine Künstliche Intelligenz entwickelt, die gegen internationale Riesen wie Microsoft und Google antreten will. Dafür braucht das Start-up allerdings frisches Kapital. Christof Kerkmann

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Mon Feb 20 2023

Deutsches KI-Start-up gleichauf mit Open AI

Amerikanische Techkonzerne dominieren den Markt für KI-Modelle, auf denen Anwendungen wie ChatGPT basieren. Jetzt hat das deutsche Start-up Aleph Alpha die Leistung seines eigenen Modells untersucht – mit ermutigendem Ergebnis. Maximilian Sachse

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Sat Jan 14 2023

Wird Deutschland zur Deeptech-Nation?

Lange waren erfolgeiche Start-ups, die auf hochkomplexer Technologie basieren, in Deutschland eher eine Seltenheit. Trotz schwieriger Marktbedingungen ändert sich das gerade. Doch es fehlen Investoren, die ihre Technik überhaupt verstehen. Maximilian Sachse

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Tue Jan 10 2023

Wie KI energieeffizienter werden kann

Am 16. September 2022 war es so weit: Im Raum Bayreuth ging Europas leistungsfähigstes kommerzielles KI-Rechencluster an den Start: Alpha One. Gebaut hat es das Heidelberger KI-Start-up Aleph Alpha. Seine 512 NVIDIA-A100-KI-Beschleuniger mit je 80 GByte Speicher können gut 7,6 Billiarden Rechenoperationen pro Sekunde durchführen. Katja Scherer

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Press releases & announcements

From us for you

Mon Feb 20 2023

Luminous: European AI closes gap to world leaders

Aleph Alpha releases performance benchmarks of its AI language model Luminous. The research compares Luminous to the models from GPT-3 and ChatGPT developer OpenAI, among others. The scientific comparison included tasks related to text classification, evaluation, and generation, as well as answering questions about specific text contents. The result is impressive – with Luminous, a European AI language model is, for the first time, on par with the world's leading AI language models, while being much more efficient.

Mon Oct 24 2022

Heidelberger Startup Aleph Alpha ermöglicht innovativen Bürgerservice mit neuartiger KI

Als erstes Projekt seiner Art in Deutschland, ist der Start von Lumi ein wichtiger Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu einer digitalisierten Verwaltung. Mit der Lumi-Technologie werden alle Menschen daran beteiligt den Nutzen einer neuartigen Technologie zu gestalten.

Fri Sep 16 2022

Alpha ONE opens: Aleph Alpha AI data centre closes infrastructure gap at federal, state and local level

Dr Anna Christmann (B'90/GRÜNE; BMWK) opens Aleph Alpha's AI data centre alpha ONE and with that becomes the first infrastructure core for the "AI for Government Programme" of GovTech Campus Germany. Just recently, Aleph Alpha released Luminous, the largest European AI language model.

Fri Jun 24 2022

Aleph Alpha entwickelt virtuellen Bürgerassistent der Stadt Heidelberg

Bildung, Soziale Teilhabe und die Beteiligung der Bürger sind wichtige Standpfeiler in der Digitalisierungsstrategie der Stadt Heidelberg. Im Austausch mit dem virtuellen Assistenten können Bürgerinnen und Bürger so einfach wie nie auf Informationen zugreifen, sich eine Meinung bilden und eigene Ideen einbringen.

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