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Aleph Alpha GmbH

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

Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference

model labinference provider9 model listings0 token-price rows

Reviewed identity

Headquarters scope
EU headquarters
Headquarters record
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

Open interactive profile

Evidence boundaries

Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. 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/