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Aleph Alpha GmbH

Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for Aleph Alpha GmbH.

Dataset compiled 2026-08-28 · evidence over inference

HQ Europe: Yesmodel labinference provider9 model listings0 token-price rows

Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
EU headquarters
Headquarters country
Germany
Headquarters city
Heidelberg
Legal entity
Aleph Alpha GmbH (research entity: Aleph Alpha Research)
Ownership
VC-backed private, IN TRANSITION: on 24 April 2026 Cohere (Toronto) announced a stock-for-stock merger/acquisition of Aleph Alpha valuing the combined entity at USD 20bn — Cohere shareholders approx 90%, Aleph Alpha shareholders approx 10%, combined company keeps the Cohere name with Aidan Gomez as CEO. Schwarz Group invests USD 600M into Cohere's Series E. Close status not confirmed as of 2026-08-22.
Founded
2019
Confidence
high
Last verified
2026-08-22

Links

Official website

Headquarters evidence

Open interactive profile

Headquarters evidence

Savanna also automatically updates our model leaderboard, which we display on a big screen in our Heidelberg HQ so everyone shares the excitement when we train our new best model.

The company explicitly calls the Heidelberg location its HQ.

Evidence boundaries

Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Headquarters is independent of incorporation, registered offices, ownership, hosting and runtime. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.

Model listings

  1. Pharia-1-LLM-7B-controlcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    7.04B
    Context
    8,192 tokens
    Languages
    EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, NL
    Licence
    Open Aleph License (non-commercial research/education only; commercial use requires separate review)
    Release
    2024-09
  2. Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control-alignedcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    7.04B
    Context
    8,192 tokens
    Languages
    EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, NL
    Licence
    Open Aleph License
    Release
    2024-09
  3. Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control-hfcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    7.04B
    Context
    8,192 tokens
    Languages
    EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT, NL
    Licence
    Open Aleph License
    Release
    unknown
  4. TFree-HAT-Pretrained-7B-Basecatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    approx 7B (shrunk from 8B by removing embedding and LM head)
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    EN, DE
    Licence
    Open Aleph License
    Release
    unknown
  5. llama-tfree-hat-pretrained-7b-dpocatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    approx 7B
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    EN, DE
    Licence
    Open Aleph License
    Release
    unknown
  6. Luminous (Base / Extended / Supreme)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    EN, DE, FR, ES, IT
    Licence
    proprietary
    Release
    2021
  7. TFree-HAT 7Bcatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text
    Parameters
    7B
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    multilingual, strong on non-Latin alphabets and low-resource languages
    Licence
    open weights (see HF card)
    Release
    2025
  8. PhariaAI stack (PhariaAssistant, PhariaStudio, PhariaFiles)catalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    platform
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    unknown
    Licence
    commercial licence
    Release
    2024-2026
  9. Creance.aicatalogued with this organisation · origin not asserted
    Type
    text (compliance domain)
    Parameters
    unknown
    Context
    unknown
    Languages
    unknown
    Licence
    commercial
    Release
    2025-2026

Profile note

The reference on-prem sovereign AI platform for German regulated sectors and defence, and the origin of genuinely differentiated European research: tokenizer-free HAT and low-fertility European-language tokenization, which is a real per-token cost advantage on German and French text. Critically for this directory, its pricing is NOT per-token — it is a custom enterprise licence, gated behind sales, with the open weights themselves free but non-commercial. Its absorption into Cohere in 2026, funded by Schwarz Group, is the pivotal consolidation event in European sovereign AI; leadership is now…

Record sources

  1. https://aleph-alpha.com/
  2. https://docs.aleph-alpha.com/products/pharia-ai/
  3. https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Pharia-1-LLM-7B-control
  4. https://huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/tfree-hat-pretrained-7b-base
  5. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/cohere-acquires-merges-with-german-based-startup-to-create-a-transatlantic-…
  6. https://european.cloud/2026/02/schwarz-group-aleph-alpha/
  7. https://aleph-alpha.com/introducing-tfree-hat-7b-tokenizer-free-models-achieving-top-tier-multilingual-perfor…
  8. https://www.tahawultech.com/news/aleph-alpha-launch-groundbreaking-t-free-architecture-for-next-generation-ll…
  9. https://aleph-alpha.com/company/