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Aleph Alpha GmbH
Company typePrivate
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded2019; 5 years ago (2019)
Founders
  • Jonas Andrulis
  • Samuel Weinbach
HeadquartersHeidelberg, Germany
ProductsLuminous LLM
Websitealeph-alpha.com

Aleph Alpha is an independent German artificial intelligence (AI) startup company in Heidelberg, founded by professionals with experience as employees of Apple, SAP and Deloitte.[1] Aleph Alpha attempts to achieve independence from US companies and comply with European data protection regulations. It develops large language models (LLM), which try to provide transparency of its sources used for the results generated[2] and are intended for enterprises and governmental agencies only. Training of its chatbot has been done in five European languages.[3]

Funding

  • After receiving seed money in 2019, a second round of financing by several European venture-capital companies totaled 23 million Euro in 2021.[4]
  • In a financing round in November 2023, German companies Schwarz Gruppe and Dieter Schwarz Foundation participated as the largest investors, along with SAP[5] Bosch, Hubert Burda Media and Christ&Company Consulting as well as US-Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The total amount of this third round was more than 500 million US dollars.[6][7]

Products

Luminous

Aleph Alpha began development on its own AI chatbot, later named Luminous based on LLMs as generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) with self-supervised learning. As a tool to build and train its foundation models, the HPE Machine Learning Development System is used.[8] Using the GPT-type concept allows adaptation and fine-tuning of the foundation model to various applications.[9]

Luminous is already used for the citizen information system Lumi of the city of Heidelberg.[10]

Partnerships

  • For R&D, Aleph Alpha is working with the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Technical University of Darmstadt. It is also participating in open-source organizations such as EleutherAI, a collective of researchers working to increase accessibility to AI research.[3]
  • Both Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and SAP have entered non-exclusive partnerships with Aleph Alpha. In the case of HPE, it is the first partnership of this kind. HPE will offer Luminous on its Greenlake platform.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Chatbot-Konkurrenz aus Deutschland: Auf Wiedersehen, ChatGPT - und willkommen Aleph Alpha. finanzen.net, 2023-03-15 (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  2. ^ Maximilian Schreiner: AI in practice: AI startup Aleph Alpha shows off latest LLMs with a unique feature. The Decoder, 2023-06-05. Retrieved 2023-11-11
  3. ^ a b Accelerating Europe’s multilingual AI revolution. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 2022. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  4. ^ Earlybird leads Aleph Alpha's 23 million EURO Serie A for the largest European AI models. press release, earlybird.com, 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  5. ^ Generative AI Investments Aleph Alpha, Anthropic and Cohere. SAP news, 2023-07-18. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  6. ^ Aleph Alpha raises a total investment of more than half a billion US Dollars from a consortium of industry leaders and new investors. Press Release, aleph-alpha.com, 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  7. ^ Aggi Cantrill and Mark Bergen: German Giants Pour Over $500 Million Into AI Startup Aleph Alpha. Bloomberg News, 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  8. ^ Hewlett Packard Enterprise accelerates AI journey from POC to production with new solution for AI development and training at scale. Press Release, HPE, 2022-04-27. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  9. ^ Next-level customizability. aleph-alpha.com. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  10. ^ KI-Bürgerassistenz Lumi. heidelberg.de, 2023 (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  11. ^ Matthias Hohensee: Wir verbünden uns mit den besten Unternehmen der Welt. In: WirtschaftsWoche, 2023-06-22 (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-11.
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