Aleph Alpha

The vulnerability finder Cohere wants to buy has 35 curl CVEs to its name, and the deal is still a letter of intent

AISLE says it has reported more than 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities across more than 100 codebases. Its Prague office would become Cohere's global hub for AI cybersecurity.

A German lab put 967 sensitive prompts to six Chinese open models, and one answered 17% of them evenly

An American model was flagged too. Aleph Alpha traced it to about 3,500 rows of a 9.3-million-row fine-tuning set that carried Communist Party framing.

Aleph Alpha has opened a 78-billion-parameter German model that uses 3.5 billion at a time

The Heidelberg lab is selling jurisdiction rather than frontier capability. Every benchmark score it published is its own, and the rivals it chose to measure against all date from the spring.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign their merger agreement, with Berlin as a second headquarters

Five months after announcing the plan, the Canadian and German model developers have signed binding terms. Aleph Alpha's co-CEO would become Cohere's chief operating officer once the deal closes.