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Ilhan Scheer

1 entry · 3 October 2026

Ilhan Scheer is co-chief executive of Aleph Alpha, the German AI company building large language models and enterprise AI infrastructure. He joined as chief growth officer in 2025 and was appointed co-CEO, alongside Reto Spörri, as the company completed a strategic realignment towards commercial deployment following founder Jonas Andrulis's step back from the chief executive role.

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  1. Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight German-English model

    A 78bn-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3.5bn active) trained with roughly 23% German text, released on German Unity Day while its Cohere merger awaits approval.

    Aleph AlphaModels & capabilities · Open weights & ecosystem