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Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer with 78B total parameters, 3B active, up to 1M tokens of context, published as full weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. It was trained through the same pipeline as the earlier Kolibri Origin (30B total, 3B active, 65k context), and is specialized for German, reasoning, math, and agentic behavior, aimed at regulated sectors such as public administration, industrials, and aerospace. The announcement post contains no benchmark numbers, only a pointer to a separate tech report.

Why: A 3B-active MoE with a 1M-token window under Apache 2.0 is something you can realistically self-host and fine-tune without a licensing review, which makes it a candidate for on-prem or data-residency-constrained agentic workloads where you currently pay per-token API costs. The catch is that the post ships zero eval numbers and the specialization is German/English, so treat 'sovereignty' here as a marketing claim about training supply-chain provenance and deployment freedom until the tech report gives you something measurable against your own workload.

Cloudflare has taken its Data Platform out of open beta and into general availability, renaming it Cloudflare Basin. The family is now Basin Pipelines (formerly Cloudflare Pipelines, ingesting from Workers, HTTP, or Logpush and writing Apache Iceberg tables or files to R2), Basin Catalog (formerly R2 Data Catalog, managing Iceberg metadata), and Basin SQL (formerly R2 SQL, a serverless distributed SQL engine querying Iceberg tables on Cloudflare). The post cites Anomaly co-founder Dax Raad saying they replaced an AWS S3 and Athena setup with Basin, but gives no pricing, limits, or benchmark numbers.

Why: If you had Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog, or R2 SQL in beta docs, scripts, or Terraform, those product names changed, so configs and internal references need updating before the old names drift out of the docs. Beyond the rename, the announcement gives no pricing, quotas, latency figures, or SLA details, so you cannot make a cost decision from this post alone — you would need to pull current pricing for R2 storage, Pipelines, and Basin SQL and compare it against your existing warehouse or S3-plus-Athena spend, especially if egress fees are a real line item for you.